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Class 8: Teaching Reading and Listening Comprehension – Goals for Today:

Identify rationale and goals for teaching reading and listening skills

Know different types of activities for teaching reading and listening comprehension

Be able to design activities

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Rationale for Teaching Reading Comprehension:

Comprehensible inputVehicle for cultural informationOpportunity for interactionFunctional skill

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Rationale for Teaching Listening Comprehension

Helps comprehension-based approaches, allows for “silent” period

Trains receptive skillsHelps functional approaches with emphasis

on oral communicationPromotes communicative skill developmentProvides venue for use of authentic materials

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Reading for different purposes

ScanningFinding main ideas and a few

supporting detailsGetting all the details

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Listening Comprehension -- What Does the Listener Need to Do?

Determine the type of interaction or speech event (such as conversation, lecture, discussion or debate)

Recall scripts (or schemata) relevant to the situation

Making inferences about the goals of the speaker

Determining the meaning of the utteranceRemember and act upon the information

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Teacher Talk

Simplified codeSlower more careful articulationUse of known vocabulary and

cognatesCan include personal anecdotes

(authentic!)

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Four ways to read a text:

SkimmingScanningExtensive reading Intensive reading

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Techniques for Teaching Reading Skills -- A Five Stage Plan

 Preteaching/Preparation StageSkimming ScanningDecoding/Intensive ReadingComprehensionTransferable/Integrating Skills

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Sources for Reading Materials

Textbook Readings and RealiaRealia drawn from brochures,

newspapers, magazines and other sources

PhotographsWeb-based materials

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Homework

Read chapter 6 on oral proficiencyAnswer questions 1 and 3 on page

272Bring in a FL textbook (if available)