8.4.5
Coping with new language
Coping with new language
One method is to get students to prepare unknown vocabulary outside of class, using a dictionary. This is an especially useful approach if the aim is to focus on the content and/or to apply the text and its language to some other task (eg to prepare a debate on the subject of the text). However, teachers will often approach a written text 'cold' in class.
ACTIVITY 14
| Besides using the pre-reading activities discussed above, what might you do to help students gain access to an L2 text they had not seen before, in particular to cope with the linguistic challenges it might hold? Would you introduce lexical items in isolation or in context? How could you encourage students to get at meaning for themselves? How could you use oral questions to elicit meaning? |
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