learners Yes T hrough HandsOn Lextutoring This workshop ppt with links httpwwwlextutorcaworkshoppptx with Thomas Cobb UQAM From Conference Program ESL learners are often bored by the simple texts they are able to read ID: 638445
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Strong texts for weak learners?Yes! Through Hands-On LextutoringThis workshop ppt with links @ http://www.lextutor.ca/workshop.pptx
with Thomas CobbUQAMSlide2
From Conference ProgramESL learners are often bored by the simple texts they are able to read, but unable to read the texts that would interest them. Lextutor has two solutions: simplify complex texts down to the learner’s level,
resource the learner up to the level of the text. Slide3
Have you ever seen something like this in you learners readers?3
This is an, um… undesigned reading experience With what objective?Slide4
From Conference ProgramESL learners are often bored by the simple texts they are able to read, but unable to read the texts that would interest them. Lextutor has two solutions: simplify complex texts down to the learner’s level,
resource the learner up to the level of the text. p
lus #3 if there’s time: Find and pre-teach keywordsSlide5
1. bring the text down to the level of the learner WITH ‘VOCABPROFILE’ lextutor.ca/vp/comp/ Slide6
2. resource the learner up to the level of the text WITH ‘HYPERTEXT’ lextutor.ca/hyp/ Slide7
3. pre-teach the text’s keywords a) LONGER TEXTS: WITH ‘KEYWORDS’ lextutor.ca/key/ b) SHORTER TEXTS: WITH FREQUENCY OF WORD + PHRASElextutor.ca/freq
/comp/Slide8
Read some research on these techniquesat lextutor.ca/cv/#publicationsThank you / merci !