Thanks everyone

Orn and elen, thanks for the email. Grandma already 90 years old, and with cancer so it's a matter of time. She is hanging strong, this being the 2nd time she has been admitted since last year. Doctor said cancer had spread last year and predicted she would probably only make it for 3months but she pulled through. At the moment, condition stabilised.

At Joyce's school

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text structure and graphic organisers

There are many links here

This site gives you a lot of useful information about how to use graphic organisers for improving comprehension.

For anyone interested in text types

There are a range of text types and features here

Hope you find this useful.

REQUEST STRATEGY

Find many reading strategies here, even a video clip on REQUEST

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Joyce & Bophan

HOW TO ADD SMILIES

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Just select the smilie you want - copy the url in the box below (just that part that starts with http://..................gif). For those who want to SPICE UP their msg

Insert this code: img src="url", within this <...../> . Just paste the url for the smilie inside. Then it will appear. Have fun.

RECIPROCAL TEACHING

another website with a lot of information and description of how to implement this questioning strategy which also involves cooperative reading

another useful website

Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Click here for a website with many reading strategies

TU, you may want to check out this website. Some strategies like 'Questioning The Author' and 'Reciprocal Teaching' are outlined.

Many other strategies for others interested.

We are a Wonderful Fun-loving group!

Three Cheers for our group - when are we going to PARTY!!!? Orn - haven't gone for a wild night in TOWN!

Free Crossword Puzzle Software

Click to download free crossword puzzle software

This one can be created online

Another site for creating crossword puzzles online

As requested. These are the links above. Have fun!

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Issues of Reading In A Foreign Language

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Some articles are available for download for free and many of them relates to various issues on teaching reading. Enjoy

Reading Into Writing 4 Rhetorical Models of Understanding Claire Kramsch

Click here to read article

Another article is the same series as the previous one I posted by William Grabe. This article examines the interpretation of texts (both written and spoken) and the construction or reconstruction of meaning, adding an element of intertextuality to the process. Instead of just the traingulation of reader, text and author an extra element is added - 'rhetorical co-construction of meaning':

'The way teacher and students talk to one another about the text, and about each others' interpretations of the text, what each one chooses to say and to leave unsaid, are among the many interpretive procedures that help co-construct learners' representations of the world disclosed by the text. Even in the individual silent reading outside the classroom, the readers' ability to imagine the worlds evoked by the text is mediated by their interactions with prior texts, prior conversations on texts, and by the schooled and unschooled ways in which they have learned to take knowledge from written texts and to make sense of that knowledge.'

I am sure reading this article will evoke 'pleasant' memories of the many hours of grammar analysis we laboured 'conscientiously' through last semester.

Discourse Analysis and Reading Instruction

Functional Approach to Reading: Click here

Found this article extremely interesting (by one my favourite authors, William Grabe - has anyone read his book on Teaching and Researching Reading - highly recommended if you intend to attempt personal research in this area) , especially in the light of systemic grammar and discourse analysis - for those interested in reading abt how the genre approach has been adapted to teaching reading, read and we can discuss - this is an area I am personally passionate about, especially in the practical implementation in the classroom.

Much has been said abt genre approach in teaching writing, but I think exploration of this in teaching reading is still at its infancy (especially in the Singapore context) though the revised EL syllabus is in its 4th year of implementation. Remember what we discussed in Dr Richard's class about the paradigm shift? Not too sure how far educators (in Singapore) have embarked on this though....

EL Syllabus for Singapore

EL Syllabus website

Hey, some of you wanted the EL syllabus for singapore, you can download at the above website

Some Members@Sentosa 2004

Welcome to our Blog. These are the members of this blog. We are all currently attending the Postgraduate Diploma In Applied Linguistics course @ RELC

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