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Reading for Second Language Learners

It is a basic understanding that someone who can read has already mastered its awareness of phonemes. To be able to read a word, the reader must be able to identify the sound of each phoneme and understand the phonology that makes up a word. The word then must be comprehensible for the reader to make sense and interpret its meaning. Knowing the word will eventually make meaning according to how the reader understands or interprets its syntax. Depending on the reader's background, experience, vocabulary knowledge, and educational attainment, the reader decides on its explication. It is noted that a significant number of immigrants arriving in various nonnative countries and cultures are non literate in their native languages. (Brown, pp. 395) This is a major challenge in teaching L2 learners. Imagine all the issues that affect teaching when a teacher tries to do a Bottom-Up Processing approach with a Top-Down Processing Learning approach. The teacher will try to offer the most bas...

TESL 110: Unit 4 Lesson Planning

Unit 4: Lesson Planning Learning these lesson types enlightened me on which I am most comfortable in practice. Present-Practice-Produce (PPP) type of lesson plan is where I see myself practicing the most. I now see the importance of a Task-Based lesson plan which I would want to try and incorporate in my class. I see it as beneficial because it focuses on fluency, and it is learner-centered whereas I currently practice the teacher-centered (PPP) lesson type. It can be challenging as it is difficult to monitor and unpredictable to teach in sequence for learning but because it is based on the learner's needs, it is quite promising to produce results. In my current practice, I assess my student’s needs based on their writing skills and then prepare the PPP practice. I look forward to trying out both skill-based and task-based approaches for my ELA lessons moving forward. I also had an idea to group my learners into each type of lesson plan. Task-based and skill-based lessons can...

TESL 0100 Unit 4: Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition “We all acquire language in exactly the same way.” This is an outrageous claim by Stephen Krashen [1] on his Language Acquisition interview. Indeed it is but I agree that it is true. As a child, we learn by listening and mimicking, based on our daily conversation. We acquire language by watching and listening to someone speaks and subconsciously collecting words and understanding what is being said. When you watch children play using little people toys, what do they do? They role play based on what happens around them. They play going to the doctor, church, shopping, eating, cooking and everything that they can act based on daily activities. That’s when you can see language acquisition happen. “Immigrant children don’t speak right away when they arrive. It takes several months of...

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