Celta - Language Skills
Language Skills Assignment
Section 1: Choice of authentic text
The authentic text chosen is “Eight ways to work out at work”. It was published by our local Star newspaper on 8 April’13. It is also available online (please refer to Appendix 1, page 2 for the text).
The choice of the authentic text was based on the following:
From a learner perspective: 1. Connection to own life/situation: The text is of an interesting subject matter which learners can connect to as many of them use computers very often either at home, work place or college. Furthermore, the helpful pointers shared in this text may even provide them with practical exercise tips for them to use in real life. 2. Manageable: In terms of language complexity and text length, it is suitable for intermediate level learners as to “make sure that most of the vocabulary in reading text is familiar to your students, and the words that are unknown can either easily guessed or safely ignored” (quote from A Course in Language Teaching, P Ur in page 149.
From my perspective as a teacher: 1. Easily exploited: This authentic text can be exploited as part of a reading lesson aim for students of an intermediate level in order to help “provide our students with the opportunities to do as much (successful) reading as possible, including a varied diet of types of reading. (Quote from A Course in Language Teaching, P Ur in page 149. 2. Task Friendly: The chosen text has got an image of a girl in front of the computer, which will help with the “Before Reading task” of prediction while the rest of the text provides some ideas for me to construct possible “while Reading” task of checking their predictions and the ideas shared in this text can be used for the “post reading task”. 3. Acceptable: This authentic text sourced from a popular Malaysian newspaper can be considered as acceptable as it does not contain any contradictory subject matter that may be sensitive to my students who I currently
Section 1: Choice of authentic text
The authentic text chosen is “Eight ways to work out at work”. It was published by our local Star newspaper on 8 April’13. It is also available online (please refer to Appendix 1, page 2 for the text).
The choice of the authentic text was based on the following:
From a learner perspective: 1. Connection to own life/situation: The text is of an interesting subject matter which learners can connect to as many of them use computers very often either at home, work place or college. Furthermore, the helpful pointers shared in this text may even provide them with practical exercise tips for them to use in real life. 2. Manageable: In terms of language complexity and text length, it is suitable for intermediate level learners as to “make sure that most of the vocabulary in reading text is familiar to your students, and the words that are unknown can either easily guessed or safely ignored” (quote from A Course in Language Teaching, P Ur in page 149.
From my perspective as a teacher: 1. Easily exploited: This authentic text can be exploited as part of a reading lesson aim for students of an intermediate level in order to help “provide our students with the opportunities to do as much (successful) reading as possible, including a varied diet of types of reading. (Quote from A Course in Language Teaching, P Ur in page 149. 2. Task Friendly: The chosen text has got an image of a girl in front of the computer, which will help with the “Before Reading task” of prediction while the rest of the text provides some ideas for me to construct possible “while Reading” task of checking their predictions and the ideas shared in this text can be used for the “post reading task”. 3. Acceptable: This authentic text sourced from a popular Malaysian newspaper can be considered as acceptable as it does not contain any contradictory subject matter that may be sensitive to my students who I currently