Teaching Gist Reading to Higher Level Learners

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Teaching Reading for Gist In General English Classes to Higher Level Learners Word Count 2664 Teaching Reading for Gist to Higher level learners Page 1/11 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.2 1.3 1.4 Context Scope Outcome 2. ANALYSIS 2.1 What is reading for Gist? 2.2 Why read for Gist? 2.20 Why do we Read? 2.21 Why do we read for Gist? 2.23 Usefulness in L2. 2.3 What do we do when we read for Gist? 2.30 Strategies for Gist Reading in L2 2.31 Top Down 2.31 Schematic Knowledge 2.3 Course Book Methodology 3. ISSUES 3.1 Real Life 3.10 Day to Day Life 3.11 Transferable L1 skills 3.2 Gist reading as a skill on its own 3.13 Part of a process 3.3 Metacognition 3.3 Methodology 4. SOLUTIONS 4.1 4.10 4.12 4.13 Relevance Know the Learners Negotiated Outcomes Metacognitive Approach 4.2 Developing Gist Reading Skills as a Sole Focus 4.20 Guided learning/Inductive or Test Teach Test Approach 4.22 Usage 5. BILIOGRAHY Teaching Reading for Gist to Higher level learners Page 2/11 1.0 INTRODUCTION In choosing this topic the author has decided to take a detailed look at a receptive sub-skill that he has been teaching for many years with reference to higher level learners. 1.2 Context Below are the usual contexts for the author’s teaching 1.20 Course Books of this skill. 1) EFL course books 2) Independently sourced texts with teacher designed activities In most course books reading for gist arrives in amongst a few prescribed activities for which other sub-skills are employed such as reading for detail, prediction etc. These are repeated for different reading texts throughout the book. 1.21 Scope In this work the following will be looked at from the perspective of higher level learners 1) The relevance of this sub-skill to learners’ lives in terms of L2 2) How important the topic of a text is to aid learning this sub-skill 3) The methodology underpinning the course

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