Thursday, July 30, 2020

Receptive Skills: Good or Bad

(TESOL Worksheets--Teacher Training, Reading, Listening)

Questions (to cut out and post around the room): docs, pub
Slideshow (for whole class discussion afterwards): slides, pub

[Notes: This is for use in teacher training.  I got this from a colleague.  I've changed the formatting somewhat, and added a slideshow to make it easier to conduct feedback at the end of the activity.  But as far as the actual content goes, none of this is my own.  It was all taken from my colleague.]



The students read the text aloud.

The teacher drills and corrects the accuracy of answers to a comprehension task. For example:
T: So no.1, where did he go?
S: He go to Berlin. (this is the correct answer)
T: He went to Berlin.

The teacher pre-teaches all the vocabulary in the text that students won’t understand.

The students listen or read as many times as they want.

More general, easier first task followed by a more demanding second task.

The teacher says “Ask me if there are any words you don’t know.”

The teacher checks that the students understand the questions in a task before they listen or read.

The teacher says “Read the text – what is it about?”

The teacher pauses the listening when the students are having to do a very intensive or detailed task, for example writing numbers down or addresses from the text.

Students read and then get a task.

In feedback to reading for detailed comprehension, the teacher allows learners to respond personally to the text.

Students underline answers to the second reading task in the text

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