Transcript English Learners Reading English”

“English Learners Reading
English”
By Suzanne Peregoy
General reading strategies
Read with purpose
 Activate prior knowledge
 Decode words
 Interpret words and structures in context
 Use familiarity with genre to construct
meaning
 Monitor understanding throughout reading
process
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Reading in L2
Limited L2 proficiency
 Background knowledge
 Familiarity with text structure; L1 literacy
 Phonemic awareness
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– “The essential question is not whether students
should be taught sound/symbol
correspondences but rather how these should be
taught” (p. 4)
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Familiarity with the “decoding” process
Minimal L1 literacy
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Determine cause
– Insufficient schooling
– Impairment/ developmental issue
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Expose learner to purpose of written
language
– Elementary written forms: age appropriate?
Paucity of research
L2 reading research mostly conducted on
high school or college level learners
 Beginning English reading acquisition has
in effect not been researched
 Instructional practices have to take a
balanced approach until the research can
provide a better framework
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Beginning readers
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Importance of understanding meaning and
purpose of text
– Read aloud
– Word recognition
» Sight words
» Sound/ symbol correspondence
– Repetition
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Make activities age appropriate
Intermediate readers
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Pre-reading:
– Purpose
– Vocabulary
– Brainstorming/ predicting
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Reading:
– Begin by reading (aloud) with class
– Guide students, checking for comprehension at
predetermined intervals
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Post-reading:
– Mapping, dramatization, story completion, etc.
“For L2 learners, every lesson is a
potential language learning
opportunity, and must be structured
as such” (p.8)