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Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes

Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes. Chris Ożóg, IH Dubai. Reading and Listening Lessons. Reading and Listening Lessons. Reading and Listening Lessons. Receptive skills work Can focus on mirco-skills or subskills Can focus on strategies

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Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes

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  1. Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes Chris Ożóg, IH Dubai

  2. Reading and Listening Lessons Reading and Listening Lessons

  3. Reading and Listening Lessons • Receptive skills work • Can focus on mirco-skills or subskills • Can focus on strategies • Coursebooks use graded texts • Lend themselves to authentic texts • Tend to have a similar procedural template / lesson shape • Teacher silence • Often seen as easy lessons for the teacher • Students don’t always perceive value (wasted time?)

  4. Subskills Photo courtesy of @KatySDavis, ELTPics

  5. Subskills • Prediction • Gist / skimming • Specific information / scanning • Detailed comprehension • Deducing lexical meaning • Inferring meaning/attitude • Understanding textual organisation • Note-taking • Summarising

  6. Top-down or Bottom-up Processes? 1 Bottom-Up Processing • Recognising letters/words • Focus on individual words • Working out syntax 2 Top-Down Processing • Use world knowledge • Use experience • Different text style Images from: Nuttall, Christine. (2005) Teaching Reading Skills. MacMillan: 16 -17

  7. The Musts... Over the next few slides, we'll • Examine 5 things we must do in receptive skills lessons • Discuss these • Daydream Photo courtesy of @sandymillin ELTPics

  8. Must 1: Always do Gist Photo courtesy of me the other night in Edinburgh

  9. Must 1: Always do Gist Photo courtesy of me the other night in Edinburgh

  10. Must 2: Get the questions right first time! X Photo courtesy of @senicko, ELTPics

  11. Must 2: Get the questions right first time! Find out why the questions were wrong! Here comprehension skills can be developed and are not just tested. Be confident! • Peer checking • Underline the answer in the text • Highlight key words • Paraphrase text • Identify referencing • Help learners work out unknown lexis • Provide answers and have learners find why

  12. Must 3: Pre-teach Essential Lexis Why pre-teach? What pre-teach? How many pre-teach? When pre-teach? Photo courtesy of @sandymillin, ELTPics Blog post http://eltreflection.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/what-is-the-point-in-pre-teaching/

  13. Must 4: Only Play the Tape Twice Question! How many times should you play a recording? Answer? As many times as you need to, within reason, and not always the whole recording. Use the tape-script. Photo courtesy of @senicko, ELTPics

  14. Must 5: Put the Text away – Get on with Something Else You’ve finished the reading work, time to put the text away and do something else? • Guided Discovery • Learn Lexis • Highlight textual features • Identify referencing • Summarise • Find adjectives • Write Qs for others • Etc. Photo courtesy of @lauraahaha, ELTPics

  15. Summing Up Photo courtesy of Alison Newman, ELTPics

  16. Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes Chris Ożóg, IH Dubai E-mail: chris@ihdubai.com Twitter: @chrisozog Blog: eltreflection.wordpress.com

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