READING NOTES
College of
Education
Dr. David W. Gurney
STILL WORKING ON INDENTATIONS WITH
THESE MATERIALS!!
Foreign Language
Education
READING
[Notes on Reading: Brown Chapter 8
Chapter
8: Contrastive Analysis, Interlanguage , and
error analysis (192-222)
FOCUS: Learning of the
linguistic system.
I. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS
A. L1
interference as principal hindrance to acquisition of
L2. n Second language learning became process of
overcoming such interference
1.
Appeal of CAH in light of accented foreign speech and "predictability" of
interference for specific languages.
2. Language comparison was key
(Lado, 1957)
Became strong influence on methodology (See Omaggio,
Chp. 3)
B. Contrastive analysis procedures - 4
1. Description
2. Selection
3.
Contrast
4. Prediction of
error
Characterization: Uses
meaningful language from start.
C. Hierarchy of
Difficulty
1. Stockwell and degrees
of difficulty - 8
2.
Bases: Transfer (positive,
negative, zero) and choices between L1 & l2 (Optional / obligatory)
3.
3.
Result: inventory (used to predict difficulty)
4. Prator's hierachy
- 6 levels (pp. 195-199)
Characterization: Uses meaningful language from start.
D. Moderating the
Contrastive Anaysis Hypothesis
1. Using one skill prompts /
relevant to using another
2 Can start from beginning
stages
3. Story Experience and
effects
4 Special attention
F Reading as Interactive
Process: Key is interaction
1. Interaction relative to
transaction
2. Model of Reading [Cf.,
Episodic concept/textuality]
Which do you go to first,
second, etc.? How linked?
3. Process: "Creating
meaning" - high level understanding.
Reader important to this
process: reconstruction
G Facilitating the Reading
Experience
H Writing as an
Integrative Process
I Facilitating the Writing
Experience
II. Chapter
12: Ways to Promote Literacy Development (202 - 232)
THESIS: Various approaches have been
tried.
A. language
Experience Approach
1. Precursor to Whole
Language: write what one can say.
a Tell to
teacherb Read what is
written
c begins with students'
experiences
2. Alternatives
3. Advantages /
Limitations
B.
Literature based Curriculum
C.
Writing Workshop
D. Academic Reading
and Writing
David W. Gurney, Ph. D.
TSL 5345
Fall 1997
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