An Alternative Approach to Materials for teaching Reading.

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1 An Alternative Approach to Materials for teaching Reading.

2 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?

3 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.

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

5 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.

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

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

8 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

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

10  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.

11  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.

12  1 차시 -  1 차시 - 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 학생작품 2 I feel uneasy because if new phones come out, people will not buy me.

13  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.

14  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

15  2 차시 - 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 1

16  2 차시 - 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 2

17  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.

18 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 1 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 1

19 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 2 3 차시 - 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 2

20  Use of Schema

21 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