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Informationen zum Autor I.S.P.Nation is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University in Wellington! New Zealand. Klappentext Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning! this guide for teachers and teacher trainees offers suggestions for helping learners at various levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. Zusammenfassung Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees offers suggestions for helping learners at various levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. Inhaltsverzeichnis @contents: Selected Contents:Table of ContentsChapter 1 Learning to read in another language 1Learning to read in the first languageLearning to read in another languagePrinciples for teaching readingChapter 2 Learning to recognise and spell words Prerequisites for formal reading instructionPhonics and the alphabetic principleThe role of phonics in a reading programmeSpelling: productive phonicsLearning to spellDesigning a focused spelling programmeChapter 3 Intensive reading Focuses in intensive readingFeatures of a good reading exerciseAre comprehension questions good reading exercises?Comprehension of the textThe focus of comprehension questionsGrammar features in the textCohesive devicesStrategy developmentStandardized reading proceduresHandling the exercisesThe role of teaching exercisesChapter 4 Extensive reading Understand the goals and limitations of extensive readingFind your learners= present vocabulary levelProvide plenty of interesting and appropriate reading textsSet! encourage and monitor large quantities of extensive readingSupport and supplement extensive reading with language focused learning and fluency developmentHelp learners move systematically through the graded reader levelsSimplified and unsimplified textsThe extensive reading programmeChapter 5 Reading faster The nature and limits of reading speedThe nature of fluency developmentThe nature of fluency development activitiesIncreasing oral reading speedIncreasing careful silent reading speedIncreasing silent expeditious reading speedFrequently asked questions about reading speedChapter 6 Assessing reading MotivatingMeasuring achievementDiagnosing problemsMeasuring reading proficiencyIssues in making and using comprehension testsChapter 7 Helping learners write Principles for teaching writingDesigning tasksExperience tasksBringing tasks within the learners' experienceMaking sure learners have the experience to do a taskShared tasksGuided tasksIndependent tasksUsing the four kinds of tasksChapter 8 The writing process The parts of a writing programmeMeaning-focused writingThe parts of the writing processConsidering the goals of the writer and model of the readerGathering ideasIdeas to textEditingReviewingDiagnosing control of the parts of the writing processDiagnosing from the written productChapter 9 Topic types The topic type hypothesisTopic types and writingTopic types and readingLimitations of the topic type approachChapter 10 Responding to written work MotivatingImproving the quality of writingMeasuring proficiency in writingAppendix 1 Spelling correspondences Appendix 2 Conjunction relationships References ...
