This week’s reading mainly introduces the strategies and principles of teaching children literacy skills in a second language. Two teaching methods working on beginning reading are referring in the book. They are part-centered method and socio-psycholinguistic method. The former includes phonics approach, sight-word approach, and basal reader approach, whereas the later contains Language Experience Approach (LEA) and the whole language approach. It also comes to the notion of different uses of reading materials to different ages of learners. For older beginning learners, it is important to provide the materials which are at lower levels of difficulty but not overly childish and will appeal to their interests. For the younger, it would be appropriate to assist and develop the understanding of ideas such as pictures, quotation marks, punctuation marks, and so on.
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Reading is like all the other skills. There are many methods and ideas. We must choose the ones that will benefit our students the most.
ReplyDeleteI think it is best to try a combination of several methods, so that students with different learning styles will benefit equally.
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