starting to read with young learners [email protected]
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YL characteristics
Learn through experience
Have short attention and concentration span
Need to move
Are not very able to control and plan their own behavior
More concerned about themselves than others
Are not afraid of making mistakes or taking risks
Pay attention to meaning in language
Have limited experience of life
Have a limited knowledge about the world
…They enjoy fantasy and imagination
They have limited reading and writing skills even in their first language.
Reading is…• …a process whereby one looks
and understands what has been written. (Williams 1989)
• …is the main source of expanding and strengthening the language.
(Scott & Ytreberg 2000)
• …is the process of decoding the written words.• … is both process and product. The process of reading
involves the interaction between the reader and the text – how the reader is deciphering the writing on the page. The product of reading is reading comprehension, or internal construction of meaning.
(Alderson 2000)
Why teach reading? enthusiasmreinforcement interestsense of achievement exposure to the written form
Help link learning with use of English outside class
(learning technologies)• E.g. i-chat, email, forum, blogs etc.
Start reading with…
• decoding familiar written language
• Matching spoken and written forms
• Labeling objects
• Posters with common phrases
• A calendar
• ABC poster
How to teach reading?Whole word method• encourages immediate recognition is used for
irregular words
Letter-sound correspondence(phonics)
• encourages to recognize analogies below word level to help them to work out how to read and write
Ways of Reading
Skimming (Reading for gist)
Scanning (Reading for specific info)
Reading for detail
Intensive reading
Extensive reading
Useful links
• http://www.readingrockets.org/
• www.school-collection.edu.ru
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm• www.ruteachers.ru
• www.languagelink.ru
References:• Alderson, J.C. 2000. Assessing Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
• Cameron, L. 2001. Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• McKay, P. 2006. Assessing Young Language Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ministry of Education Of Russian Federation. 2001. National Curriculum. Moscow: Prosveshenie
• Scott, W. A. and L. H. Ytreberg. 2000. Teaching English to Children. New York: Longman
• Slattery, M. and J. Willis. 2001. English for Primary Teachers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. 2002. Cambridge Young Learners English Tests Sample Papers.
• Williams, E. 1989. Reading in the Language Classroom. UK: Macmillan
