teaching reading strategies through a wiki

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UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS Subdirección de Investigación y Postgrado Subprograma de Enseñanza del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Author: Lic. Edgar Leòn UPEL-IPC eaching Reading Strategies to Students of English I, at UNEXP “Luis Caballero Mejìas”, through the Use of a Wiki

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UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR

INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS Subdirección de Investigación y Postgrado

Subprograma de Enseñanza del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera

 

Author: Lic. Edgar LeònUPEL-IPC

Teaching Reading Strategies to Students of English I, at UNEXPO “Luis Caballero Mejìas”, through the Use of a Wiki

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Objectives of the e-Project

Main Objective

• To teach some reading strategies for improving the reading comprehension performance of my students of English I, at Unexpo "LCM", through the use of a wiki. 

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Secondary Objectives

• To train my students of English I, at Unexpo "LCM", in the correct use of Wikis for academic purposes, including the proper use of Netiquettes. 

• To design an online bank of technical readings for the students of English I, at Unexpo.

•  To avoid spending a lot of paper to photocopy the different readings used in the English I classes at Unexpo.

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ADVANTAGES

Engineering students: 40% Systems – 30% Mechanical – 30% Industrial 80 % have a computer at home with broadband Most of them have a good command of Office programs. Most of them are willing to learn through technology.

DISADVANTAGES

They have never been taught through a web 2.0 tool. Unexpo does not have, an English lab English classes at Unexpo are taught in Spanish

PROFILE OF MY STUDENTS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY

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Chronogram: From April, 2nd to April 27th, 2012

Number of students: 75

Number of Online sessions: 8

Number of Objectives: 4

Topics:

• Making Inferences

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Paraphrasing

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WEEK I: MAKING INFERENCES • Create a Pbworks account

• Watch the tutorials in Youtube. (English/Spanish)

• Join to the Wiki course

• Do the corresponding exercises

WEEK II: SKIMMING

• Check the reading about how to Skim a text

• Do the exercise about Skimming

• Write your reflections about using this strategy 

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WEEK III: SCANNING • Check the reading about how to Scan a text

• Do the exercise about Scanning

• Answer the questions about the reading

• Write your reflections about using this strategy 

WEEK IV: PARAPHRASING

• Check the recommended article about how to paraphrase a text .

• Read the original text and make a paraphrasis of it  

• Post your paraphrasis in the Wiki and compare your version with your classmates job.

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REFERENCESREFERENCES

Araujo, I. (1993). Descubriendo estrategias de lectura por medio de protocolos de pensamiento en voz alta. Revista de Investigación. Vol. 18, no. 39

Baxter, A. (1997).Evaluating your students. London: Richmond Publishing. Carrell, P. Devine, J. Eskey, D. (2000) Interactive approaches to second

language reading. Cambridge University Press.

Goodman, K. (1976). The Reading Process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chadwick, C. (1988). Estrategias Cognoscitivas y Afectivas de Aprendizaje. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologìa. Vol 20, no. 2

Douglas Brown (2004) Language Assessment. Principles and Classrooms Practices. White Plains. Longman.

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THANK YOU !!

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