An Alternative Approach to Materials for teaching Reading.

Questions  How can materials writers help L2 learners to tackle language problems in reading materials?  How can materials writers help L2 learners to have higher self-esteem and start enjoying reading fluently?

Principle 1: Engaging Affect should be the prime concern of reading materials.  Interesting topics  Problems in L2 for finding cognitively and linguistically balanced texts for the readers.

Principle 2: Listening to a Text before reading it helps decrease linguistic demands and encourages learners to focus on meaning.

Principle 3: Reading comprehension Means Achieving Multidimensional Mental Representation in the Reader’s Mind  Experienced images  Imagined the environment and had vague sensations (e.g. smell, dust, sound)  Felt some sort of emotion  Remembered some personal experience from your past  Thought about what you have read, heard, seen about refugees in Africa  Evaluated the skills of the poet.

Principle 4: Materials should help learners experience the text first before they draw their attention to its language

Solutions Pre-, and during comprehension check up activities are needed Interpretations, than comprehension. (Masuhara, 1998, neuroscience and cognitive psychology)

The language based approach to reading pedagogy seems to hypothesize an Equation between General syntactic ability outside a discourse context (grammar test) and the ability to disambiguate syntactical patterns during reading

Skill vs Strategies (CLT, 1970)  Skill: Acquired ability unconsciously  Strategy : conscious procedure

 1 차시 -  1 차시 - 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 예시 I feel exhausted because I have to change clothes. I want to sit on the bench because I always stand up.

 1 차시 -  1 차시 - 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 학생작품 1 I am sad because I will be soon withered. I am exhausted because I should always look beautiful.

 1 차시 -  1 차시 - 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 학생작품 2 I feel uneasy because if new phones come out, people will not buy me.

 2 차시 - 관계대명사 Who 학습 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 ? Who likes butterflies and bees. Who dislikes scissors. Who needs attention. Who gives happiness. Who wants to see snow.

 2 차시 - 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 Pattern 제공 ___________ Who likes 명사 / to 동사 Who dislikes 명사 / to 동사 Who needs 명사 / to 동사 Who gives 명사 Who wants to see 명사

 2 차시 - 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 1

 2 차시 - 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 2

 3 차시 - 좋아하는 음악 장르와 가수 묻는 표현 학 습 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 Interviewer: Will you introduce yourself? 63 Building: Hello, my name is 63 building. I am the tallest building in Korea. Interviewer: Wow, you are wonderful. You are very happy, aren’t you? 63 Building: Not, really. I am sad at night when there are no people. Interviewer: What do you do when you feel lonely at night? 63 building: I usually listen to music. Music is my friend at night. Interviewer: What’s your favorite kind of music? 63 Building: I like dance music because it makes me happy. Interviewer: Who are your favorite singers? 63 Building: My favorite group is Girl’s Generation.

3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 1 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 1

3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 2 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 2

 Use of Schema

Homework  Select one unit from a reading book, analyse it on the basis of approaches in the chapter 20 and modify the chapter reflecting suggestions.  Try to do this homework reflecting your own material.  Read according to the reading lists