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About the Class
The Reading Challenge: Motivation & Creativity in Reading Lessons Reading is a key input skill in acquiring a foreign language. This presentation aims to look at a variety of ways of transforming reading lessons into more challenging and motivating reading and learning experiences. The ideas work well both with material from authentic sources as well as with material from coursebooks.
PRE-SESSION DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND TASKS
(If you are working towards a Certificate and Professional Development Credit Hours from http://iTDi.pro please answer at least three discussion questions and do at least one task. Others are free to participate in the pre-session activities as they wish.)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Are your students motivated readers? Why or why not?
2. What do you do to motivate them to read in class? Please explain with examples. How effective are your methods?
3. What do you do to encourage your students to consolidate language acquired through reading – in class and out of class?
4. Do you feel that coursebook tasks match up with the reasons readers choose to read a text in the real world? If not, how do you compensate for this?
TASKS
1) Share a link to a book that you have found your students particularly like and were motivated to read. Discuss the book and explain what activities you did which were particularly useful and effective.
2) Please explore the archives at http://eltchat.org/wordpress/ and learn as much as you can about #ELTCHAT. Listen to one or more of the #ELTCHAT podcasts here: http://eltchat.org/wordpress/chat-reviews/ As a task, write a few sentences about what you learned about #ELTChat and why you think you might (or won't) participate?
Marisa Constantinides is a teacher, teacher educator, conference presenter & ELT materials writer, Director of Studies of CELT Athens, a centre offering Cambridge CELTA & DELTA courses in Athens & online. Her main ELT qualifications are a Diploma in TEFLA and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Reading University. Marisa is a frequent conference presenter and keynote speaker and is one of the founding moderators of #ELTchat, a weekly discussion of ELT teachers on Twitter which was shortlisted in the 2012 ELTon Awards for Innovation in Teacher Resources. She maintains the following blogs: TEFL Matters, Teaching & Learning Foreign Languages, The Cambridge CELTA blog The Cambridge DELTA course blog and ELTchat Blog. She is @Marisa_C on Twitter & you can connect with her on various social networks, all listed on her About.me page http://about.me/marisa_constantinides
Language of instruction:
English
Keywords: reading, teacher training, teaching
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