Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Week 4: Discussion - Reading, Writing, & Vocabulary

I read the article Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books written by Liang. It is very useful to me. As the times change, Korean English education must also change flexibly. but Actually Korean English teachers need to look carefully at the point that adult learners, who spend enormous amount of time learning English do not read English books fluently. It indicates a problem in Korean English education. The problem will make Korean learners lose the opportunity to obtain vast amount of information written in English.
The alternative to be suggested to solve our current English problem is extensive reading. This article shows me the benefits of extensive reading. Unfortunately Korean English education does not make full use of extensive reading.
After this article I have thought that why we don't use extensive reading in our school. Through this article, I would like to present an extensive reading program which can actualize extensive reading in Korean secondary school. 
Korean secondary school students are familiar with electronic equipment and now-popular portable internet service pleasure. If learners experience of they can getting useful information and pleasure from reading English books, and maintain such experiences for a certain period time, learners will voluntarily read English books with help of e-books' instrumental merit.
Through this articles, I would like to develop an extensive reading program by using e-books and applied the program to secondary school students for some weeks. In the program, I will open a web-site and uploads e-books according to level. The extensive reading program consists of a pre-reading stage, a reading stage, a responding stage and a feedback stage. I anticipate that this program make a meaningful change to student's interest and confidence level and no longer feared reading English books alone. 
I think many students are uncomfortable with reading English books. After reading E-books, all students will want to join in the extensive reading program. I anticipate that they would keep reading English books even though there is no specific reading program.
As extensive reading means constant and voluntary reading, I can lead learners to extensive reading successfully by using e-books.
I have use many English site to teach my students 
First of all is http://www.manythings.org.This web site is for students studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
The ABCD objective for this page would be:
A (Audience)
Primary
B (Behavior)
To practises the present continuous
C (Condition)
in a safe environment
D (Degree) 
60-90minutes
and second is http://kizclub.com. kizclub provides lots of educational activities in language arts for preschool and elementary age children. 
This website provides ABC's, phonics, topics, crafts, story patterns, nursery rhymes, flash card, teaching extra.
As a teacher, I have used This site materials as teaching resources. 
The ABCD objective for this page would be:
A (Audience)
Primary
B (Behavior)
To reinforce forms of the present tense, particularly third person
C (Condition)
by using a short, narrative story
D (Degree)
60-90minutes

Sincerely
KYEONGHWAN CHOI

2 comments:

  1. Hi Kyeonghwan,

    Congratulations! You're a very dynamic teacher and your students are very lucky to have you as their teacher. The idea of creating a program to include extensive reading is fantastic. I'm sure you'll be successful!

    Celeste

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  2. Hello Kyeonghwan,

    You touched upon a real problem in your post:the lack of interest of nowadays youngsters in reading. You have mentioned a word which is very importanrt I think: "pleasure". We will be able to say that we have reached our goal when our students will like to read and learn.Two of my school colleagues who teach Romanian Literature and World Literature download and show films based on different novels that our students don't want to read.Some prefer the audiobooks.The article on extensive reading activities contains an example of efficient approach to reading and I think it is good that you have a strategy for the change you want to make.
    I wish you to have success in your endeavour!

    Best wishes,
    Ion

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