Instructional Materials Packet

1. Instructional Materials Packet Eng 484/584 Prof. Krase Duman, Mast, Meisch. (2010).

2. Primary Theories and Concepts • Building Upon Previous Knowledge Using Schema Theory • Engaging Students in the Learning Process by Using Collaboration • Promoting Critical Thinking Using Authentic Tasks and Materials

3. Building Upon Previous Knowledge Using Schema Theory • Shih (1992): “Students need strategies for activating relevant knowledge they already have (e.g., from personal experience or from a class lecture, handout, or worksheet) as well as for constructing a general sense of the ideas in the text” • Carrel (1984): “Comprehending a text is an interactive process between a reader’s background and the text”

4. Building Upon Previous Knowledge Using Schema Theory

5. Engaging Students in the Learning Process by Using Collaboration • Tomlinson (1998): “Such attempts can enable learners to ‘check’ the effectiveness of their internal hypotheses” • Tomlinson (1998):“Communicative interaction can provide opportunities for picking up language from the new input generated, as well as opportunities for leaner output to become an informative source of input”

6. Engaging Students in the Learning Process by Using Collaboration

7. Promoting Critical Thinking Using Authentic Tasks and Materials • Shih (1992) “Reading materials and tasks should resemble materials and tasks students face in academic content classes, thus encouraging students to build repertoires of task- and text-appropriate discourse-processing strategies” • Tomlinson (1998) “Learns need to start learning what is simple; learners need rules; learns need to get things right. But learners also need to be prepared for interaction in the real world.”

8. Promoting Critical Thinking Using Authentic Tasks and Materials

9. Mission IMPossible is Possible • David Block (1991) wrote, “the time spent [creating materials] is well worth it”