Vol 07 No 4 TESL Reporter

              teaching english as
vol 7 no 4 i

a

second language
laie hawaii lc
summer 1974

CHILDRENS HILDREN
by

sidne

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literature jenson
pott n porrant a

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ESL

teacher thinks the stuff childish not the student in a recent article TESL reporter winter 1974 ted plaister reported success in teaching english to twenty japanese university graduates using mother goose

the teacher is insulted not the student the teacher is bored I not the student the

rhymes these sophisticated japanese were pl al ste s not offended by Piaiitetrs use of childrens s literature they knew that the end in this case justified the means but more imthe students found the mother goose rhymes exciting work hearing and analyzing tthese rhymes was fun and challenggh
ing

childrens literature and ESL
by sidney L jenson

CONTENTS CONTE S

page 1 I

A TESL game for constructing page 3 sentences english conversation through classroom dramatics by william gailagher l

page 4 page 5

carrying a good thing by walter P anien afl en in lf

too far

problems in cloze testing a by roger K williams

page 7 page 10

teaching english in korea
g by bill Eg gington ed

A proposal of instituting a universal language to help p nt unravel world Problems

the search for unity
by lopeti foliaki

page 12

tense uses in english
by alice C pack

page 19

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in our reading classes at the church college of hawaii with our off ca mpus ap u programs we have used the harrison method grant harrison beginning reading 1 BYU 9 press 1972 for beginning readers the early part of harm sons program uses stories Ha ri like this is a fan this is mush the fan 1 is in the sun the mush is in the sun I mash the mush the fan is fun this is not very exciting reading for adult readers adults that is who can already read we have taught graduate students from japan and taiwan samoa and the philippines who could not read or who read very poorly they found the reading of this is a fan very exciting fun and challenging tl but as we trained people to use fhie harrison method we had many adults say stu bu are Buttaarrent the kids offended by this sau ff ut e 1 none of the chiillidren I worked with and h 1 none of the adults with whom I worked was offended wa there is a great concertn and a growing i demand for adult reading material for the lower grades the hawaii department of education for example is concerned about this problem they lack easy adult reading I materials 1 do not see a serious problem

TESL reporter what a new word means even with a my answer is any material will work as dictionary reading is not a science it is an long as it is the proper grade level for the art none of us really knows how anybody stu dent it does not have to be adult be o reads e b er ed s As wallace sttogner has said we e material attempt to analyze the expedience of reading r I semester 1 am working with nineteen this but ultimately we cannot explain the second language students ranging in ability reade es experience any more than we can eader ar from fourth grade to seventh grade in reading explain the creative principle or act of the some are college graduates from ability writer 2 japan and taiwan some have never neen to b d high school the program we are following because of this teachers really do not teach reading teachers encourage reading students must teach themselves teachers can an associate sidney jenson teach ssome basic skills such as phonics or ach ee e m professor of english at the church analysis of rhetorical modes but ultimately college of hawaii has taught at utah we all must learn ourselves how to read m state university southern utah state A teachers main role is a guide helping a college and the university of utah student avoid what often is a oring and hi he received Ms phddeggree from the l de re e terribly frustrating experience the4eeacher he t ache r university of utah in 1972 can help 1 help the student find material that is interesting 2 help the student find material that suits his reading ability and 3 has two major components encourage the student to read plenty of it a one hour intensive in class section and a I p en blenty of reading or what 1 call mileage f one hour extensiivei out of class section the v n s ve b is really the key the only way to develop in c caasss reading material ranges between n cl l s an extensive vocabulary is through reading grades five and seven As a group we discuss and obviously the only way to develop the vocabulary syntax rhetoric culture and ha bittof reading is by reading io meaning this material is usually adult material with contr61lled vocabullary ol ed vocabu ary our library at the church college in the out of cllass section we spend our cia brigham young university hawaii campus time in the library in the childrens section has many childrens books which fulfill 1 select the material for the in class work I 1 I requiirre meeats one and two J am trying to u e meR en r the student selects the material for the I fill the third for an hour each day 1 and the student is enout of class reading three other student assistants sit with the couraged to find a book that interests him class in the library the students come to us and is relatively easy for him to read and ask any questions they like for five for example if he is now reading on a fifth 1 hours a week we do this and I have always grade level he should find books in the I been able to find a book 1 enjoy reading second third and fourth ggrade levels the rad e maybe this from the childrens section student is encouraged not to use his dicsays something bad about my interests and tionary butttto make pre dictions or educated uo I intellect but what 1 think it really says guesses from the context clues to discover I is that 1 enjoy reading and that there are e work me aniings some students will select many good books in the childrens literature books far below their measured reading section with a little luck the students also ability but they will read ten or twenty might acquire a taste for reading and develop books in a week some of our students had a life long craving for the stuff fe l never read an entire book cover to cover before the finishing of a book no matter how easy gives them a sense of accomlilishp ifor a description of a slimilar program see ment and success they have rarely if ever david E eskey A model program for experienced reading

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reading not translation unless one reads at ds p 200 worrdsper minute or faster he cannot st o rdsp er really comprehend total meaning if a eh student does not know almost all of the words on a page he cannot really know

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