Teaching English Through English I: How to Teach Reading, Writing and Speaking

in English

PNU-OSU JOINT TESOL PROGRAMLisya Seloni

Agenda

Part 1 (2-4 pm) Student Introductions Course Introduction Class Blog Introduction

Part 2 (4-6 pm) The most common acronyms in TESOL/Applied Linguistics Second Language Reading and Writing Class Discussion Assignments

The aim of the course:

This TESOL course is primarily designed for in-service and pre-service Korean English teachers to develop the literacy practices that are crucial for teaching reading, writing and speaking in English at the Korean public school context. This course will involve a series of lectures, workshops, group discussions, academic presentations and individual work in which students will be both improving their literacy skills and learning various ways of teaching those skills to different student population. During this course, each student will be required to read, write and present a variety of academic genre—including giving academic presentations, note-taking, doing critical reading, writing personal literacy narratives and using academic idioms in writing and speaking activities.

The academic language goals of this course are:

to express your ideas clearly in academic English to learn academic writing and speaking skills to learn academic vocabulary to be familiar with various communication styles to gain self-confidence in using academic English to learn academic English idioms

The pedagogical goals of this course are:

to gain practical teaching skills in teaching English in English to be able to make informed decisions about when to use

English and Korean in your teaching. to gain confidence in teaching English through English to integrate communicative English techniques into your

teaching. to learn communicative games and activities that will focus on

teaching academic English. to learn as much as you can from each another and to have

fun with English Language Teaching.

Course Components

1. On-line writing2. Reading Club/Teaching Demonstration3. Academic wordlist and Academic Idioms4. Position Paper5. 2nd PNU-OSU TESOL Conference

Reading the course syllabus

Please read the course syllabus carefully

Do you know these acronyms

Take about 10-15 minutes and work on these acronyms in groups.

The group who can finish them all will be the winner!

PART II

Second Language Programs in the US and in South Korea

United States Bilingual Education ESL programs Sheltered Instruction Pull out classrooms

South Korea Immersion Program GTM-Public Schools Language Institutes

(MANY!) Prep Schools Testing Programs (TOEFL,

TOEIC, TEPS) Co-teaching

Establishing theoretical orientation in teaching reading and writing Reading, writing and speaking as integrated skills—

Teaching literacy in L2 is more than only teaching reading and writing.

Perceptions of good reading and writing according to different contexts

The context of reading and writing—national, local standards

The needs of your students The needs of global and local environments—providing

authentic, multicultural and personal assignments The need to develop literacy both in L1 and L2

Second Language Reading

Cognitive Issues: Bottom-Up Reading: Reading letters, words

and sentences in rank order. Word recognition.

Top down Reading: Getting meaning by comparing expectations to a sample of information from the text. Integrating background knowledge of the reader.

Reading styles

Intensive Reading Critical Reading Skimming Scanning General Reading

Teaching English Through English

Second Language Literacy in Korean ContextWrite a paragraph or so about your reading and writing

(literacy) experiences in English. How were your first experiences like when you were learning English literacy skills? For example, what types of strategies do you employ while reading in English? Please share with us a few strategies that work best for you. Do you use the same or similar strategies while reading in Korean?

Assignments

Join the Club Chapter 1 Academic sublist 1 Reading:

http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/1420 Blog Writing: Write a short paragraph about

yourself.