2011年11月1日 星期二

11/1 The Structure of a language lesson

Four dimensions of structuring:
1. Warm up: How a lesson begins.
2. Sequencing: How a lesson is divided into segments and hot the segments relate to each other.
3. Pacing: How a sense of movement is achieved within a lesson.
4. Closure: How a lesson is brought to an end.

In the Sequencing part, there's an teaching of reading in ESL example.
Usually the lessons in this reading plan is conducted in the following activities:
1. Pre-reading activities
2. While-reading activities
3. Post-reading activities
What stood out to me was that having the students to come up with "predictions" of the reading is an important part of "While-reading activities". This can help the students build their own good habits when reading and become a part of their own learning strategy in the long run.