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Teaching English Reading

Teaching English Reading. 上海外国语大学英语学院 李尚宏. The Legitimacy of the Course. The course names: Extensive Reading Reading and Study skills Do native speakers have it? Reading Faster and Understanding More Reading and Writing Did the great masters have it?

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Teaching English Reading

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  1. Teaching English Reading 上海外国语大学英语学院 李尚宏

  2. The Legitimacy of the Course • The course names: • Extensive Reading • Reading and Study skills • Do native speakers have it? • Reading Faster and Understanding More • Reading and Writing • Did the great masters have it? • What do we expect of the students? • What isthe reality with students?

  3. What Problems Do Students Have? • Vocabulary • Reading speed • Reading skills • Study skills • Orientation • Concentration • Many others

  4. Some Examples • Transgression • Precede—precedent—unprecedented • Tantalize • Peeping tom

  5. How Do We Help ---with Vocabulary? • How to remember words? • Word formation • Keeping a vocabulary notebook and other ways • How dothey respond? • Which is better?

  6. An item in a vocabulary notebook

  7. Vocabulary Card

  8. Reading Skills---What to Teach? • Topic • Main idea • Topic Sentence • Details---organization patterns • Types of writing • Narrative • Descriptive • Argumentative

  9. SoWhat？ • Knowing where to pay attention to • Quicker to catch main ideas • More conscious of organization • Reading faster • Asking more questions • Writing better

  10. What to Read ? • Textbooks • Which one to choose? • How much do we depend on them? • Classics • What to begin with? • How do me make sure they really read and enjoy? • Newspapers, Magazines and others

  11. What I Have Tried • Greek and Roman Myths • Bible Stories • Tales from Shakespeare • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes • Detective stories by Agatha Christie • Harry Porter • The Call of the Wild • Fiction translated into English • Simplified classics • English texts by Chinese authors

  12. How to Engage Students and Check Their Reading? • Challenging questions • Retelling relay • Classroom discussions • Book reports • Exams

  13. The Visual Elements of Reading • Reading habits • Good ones • Bad ones • Reading word by word • Reading phrase by phrase • Reading area by area

  14. Practice in Other Universities • St. Johns • Peking University • Others

  15. 北京外国语大学 • 开课时间：2学期 • 教材：圣经、希腊罗马神话，此外没有固定教材 • 做法：课下阅读，老师上课讲解，有时提问，很少讨论。 • 反响：有些同学很喜欢，但上久了觉得没劲，好像传教一样。收获自然有一些，觉得自己对西方文化了解了很多。

  16. 广东外语外贸大学 • 开课时间：2学期 • 教材：泛读教程(高等教育出版社)+老师推荐书目（如老人与海） • 做法：书里的知识点+第一学期分组presentation • 反响：两个学期分不同的老师教；对只讲知识点的老师学生反响较好

  17. 中山大学 • 2学期。 • （外教授课无固定用书）阅读材料活页+每两周一本原版读物课外阅读 • 做法 • 阅读推荐和分析 • 看原版读物写reading memo（课外作业 • 一学期4篇规定主题的paper • 学生反响 • 泛读课课堂里学到的东西实在是不多.但是课后的阅读收获很多.可以说他们课余时间很大一部分是用在看这些书+写reading memo上~

  18. 南京大学 • 开课时间：4学期 • 教材：泛读教程（上外出版社王守仁老师主编）+老师印的其他读物 • 做法： • presentation（关于课文的），然后根据课文发一些材料做essay reading • 交流读书报告或者academic paper的写作(这个是一学期的学期任务) • 反响：反响还不错，比较自由的一门课，写paper很锻炼人，特别是变态的linguistic paper……”

  19. 厦门大学 • 开课时间：2学期 • 教材：泛读教程（上外出版社王守仁老师主编） • 做法：教材+课外资料，一般泛泛的讲解，没有系统的阅读技巧的 • 反响： “我们班反应很不好。也有觉得不错的班，主要是老师的问题，反应与教材无关”

  20. Conclusion • Skills are essential • Vocabulary skills • Reading skills • The textbook is deficient and supplementary materials are to be used to eke out. • The teacher plays a pivotal role.

  21. 欢迎交流 • 地址：上海外国语大学英语学院 200083 • 电话：021-65311900-2329 • 油箱：lishanghong@shisu.edu.cn

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