sang kien kinh nghiệm 2019

“INSTRUCT STUDENTS TO GET READING COMPREHENSION SKILL THROUGH READING FILL AND COMPREHENSION EXERCISES”Reasons for the study Reasons for the theoretical side Reasons for Practice Reasons

“INSTRUCT STUDENTS TO GET READING COMPREHENSION SKILL THROUGH READING FILL AND COMPREHENSION EXERCISES”

Reasons for the study

Reasons for the theoretical side

Reasons for Practice

Reasons for urgency

Reasons about the condition and capacity of the teacher

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Current situation of research issues

General difficulties in the process of teaching and

learning reading

On the learner's side

On the teacher's side

Specific limitations in the process of teaching and

learning reading skills, through two types of exercises:

reading, filling and reading to answer questions

Subjective

Objective

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On the learner's side

On the part of the teacher

More specifically, to solve two basic types of exercises

effectively: reading and filling words and answering

questions effectively:

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The specific steps when teaching reading and filling

Specific steps in teaching reading and answeringquestions

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PART A: INTRODUCTION

I Reasons for studying:

1 Reasons for the theoretical side

For the past few years language instruction has been the dominant method thathas been widely used in many foreign language classes Practicing test-taking skills isconsidered as a basic goal in the teaching process to meet national examinations.Reading comprehension is a language skill that appears in every test from beginner toadvanced level and accounts for a high proportion in a test Reading comprehensionbecomes a proactive skill in which learners play an active part of the participant in theinformation being read, processed, understood and decoded in the information toeventually respond to it It's exactly like a process of four operations: feeling -understanding - evaluating - responding Only when readers can respond will thereading process be completed, the communication process will achieve the desiredresults Poor reading skills cannot achieve high scores in national examinations.Therefore, reading comprehension is considered as a basic element of the exampreparation process Learners who want to improve their vocabulary have no otherway but to improve their reading comprehension skills.

2 Practical reasons:

Following the direction of the Ministry of Education on innovating the teachingmethod of English subject under the 2020 project, listening, speaking, reading andwriting skills are four skills that need to be invested and focused to developprofessional skills and communication skills for students

3 Reasons for urgency:

According to the Department of Education's guidelines for the 2014-2015school-year assessment innovation, reading skills account for 40% of the 45-minutetests and semester exams of grades as well as tests national graduate Therefore, it isvery important to focus on improving the effectiveness of reading classes

4 Reasons for the condition and capacity of the instructor:

Based on the results of the tests, lesson plans, assessments on the receptiveability of Que Phong School students from teachers in solving reading comprehensionexercises of grade 12 students, can recognize the following difficulties in the process

of teaching and learning reading skills, especially through two types of exercises:reading fill and reading questions to answer for high school students.

II Aims of the study

Innovating, adjusting the process of teaching and learning reading skills toimprove the effectiveness of reading lessons, focusing on solving two basic types ofexercises: Cloze text / Reading comprehension (Entering words and answeringquestions)

III Methods of the study

-Draw from experience of my teaching

-Consult many documents , especially methods of study

-Study colleagues’ experience

IV Scope of the study

-Subjects of study: grade 12 students

-Scope of study: Semester exam questions and Training and national high schoolEnglish Graduation Exam questions

V New features in the study’s result

In my innovation, It helps students to identify the content and format of thereading text Then gradually they can make it become their skills to do the readingexercises They can recognize, analyze and know how to choose the best choice in thetext It hadn’t existed before

PART B: CONTENT

I CURRENT SITUATION OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM:

1 General difficulties in the process of teaching and learning reading:

1.1 On the learner's side:

Admittedly the fact that for most students, reading is the most difficult skill.Meanwhile, the amount of time spent learning to read in class is too little Less self-study time This partly explains the fact that some students are lazy to read before

going to class, just see the answers, bad habits make the reading process meaninglessand waste of time.

The habit of translating into Vietnamese to understand each word, the desire toread and understand 100% of information also makes many students unable todistinguish between what is the core content to capture and what secondaryinformation can skipped during reading Misunderstanding of the requirements of thistype of subject makes the learner tired and tends to be embarrassed and embarrassedduring reading lessons in class

The passive learning attitude during reading lessons in some classes thatteachers have had the opportunity to attend also shows that learners do not seem topay adequate attention to self-improvement in the learning process

Psychological issues are also another difficulty for learners in receiving andresponding to information When confronted with comprehension texts of over 300words or unfamiliar reading topics or new words, students are often depressed anddistracted

1.2 On the teacher's side:

The application of translation methods in language teaching including readingcomprehension in some teachers makes the skill training ineffective

It is still a notion that reading is practicing receptive skill Learners are asked toreceive information without any prior hints about the situation they are about to read,

or they are not allowed to request feedback after reading clearly

Guide students in the traditional way by listing all the new words that appear inthe text

Some teachers are also aware of the need to change teaching methods but due

to the limited time in class, they cannot apply many effective measures to change thesituation

2 Specific limitations in the process of teaching and learning reading skills, through two types of exercises: reading fill and reading to answer questions (Cloze text and Reading comprehension):

2.1 Subjective:

The main obstacle that prevents students from doing well in the form of filling

in and reading questions is the lack of language knowledge Limited vocabulary is thebiggest obstacle to the reading comprehension process of learners This restrictionmakes learners hesitant to stop thinking when meeting new words, which has affectedthe speed and time of reading

The student's failure to grasp the content of the question resulted in an inability

to identify information that should be focused on reading Students do not know how

to guess words in context, so it takes a long time to translate words

A related emerging issue is the lack of socio-cultural knowledge Language andculture - society has an inseparable relationship, cannot understand and evaluatelanguages other than socio-cultural factors Therefore, if the learner imposes thenative language's culture and customs on the target language, it will not decodecorrectly, thereby making it impossible to guess or even misunderstand the idea thespeaker needs to convey and will choose the wrong answer

2.2 Objectivity:

*For teachers: Due to the limited time of a 45-minute lesson, but having to solvemany exercises, there is not much time to carefully guide students on tips to readeffectively, yet Let them focus on the focus On the other hand, skill training requirestime, perseverance, and repetition of the requirements of the lesson many times butdue to subjective and hasty psychology, some teachers do not have detailedinstructions specific and clearly oriented students about the topic of the reading or thesteps to be taken Special attention has not been paid to the weak average studentgroup

*On the student's side: There are questions that require students to answer a lot ofinformation so that they have to focus too much and do not know which information

to choose appropriately The usage of words, phrases and specialized structures makesstudents confused when guessing the meaning of words in context When studentsread long texts relative to topics that do not belong to their specialty, they are oftendepressed and exhausted.

In addition, due to the explosion of internet and textbooks on the market,students are lazy to read, only focus on searching for answers, so their reading skillsare slow to progress The quality of reading comprehension and fill-out tests waspoor Vocabulary is also a leading limitation in reading comprehension; somestudents read a text that only knows the meaning of a few basic words

By analyzing subjective and objective difficulties in the process of teaching andlearning reading, focus on two basic types of exercises: filling in words and readinganswers to questions Because we find that most students are confused, encountermany mistakes when doing homework, or do not even be able to do these two types ofexercises, most of them do not read but delineate the answers according to theirfeelings and topics This aims to provide some solutions to improve the situation, tohelp students interested in reading and filling texts to improve results and qualitythrough exams

II PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:

1 On the learner's side:

First of all, apply the reading methods which are used naturally in the process

of reading in your native language, without sticking to each word of the readinginformation Learners need to enhance their learning to expand their socio-culturalknowledge related to the topic of reading, and at the same time accept to understand apart of the information, do not make a request to capture all the information beingpresented In the process, the learner's vocabulary, the ability to identify switchwords, idioms, specialized words, synonyms, prepositions, etc., to guess information

is very important and should be cultivated regularly

Learners correctly understand the requirements of reading comprehensionexercises to plan adjustment, practice effective reading comprehension methods

Students need to absolutely avoid the habit of passive, not brainstorming whilereading, as well as need to overcome the phenomenon of seeing answers, wanting tocapture 100% of information, Learners also need to take advantage of allopportunities to practice reading, both inside and outside the classroom, increase thesense of self-study at home to improve vocabulary This needs regular teacherreminders.

Due to the link between reading comprehension with some other skills, theprocess of reading practice should be done on the basis of combining vocabulary Inaddition, learners also need to read more books and papers related to many differenttopics to broaden their background of socio-economic issues

2 For teachers:

A proper orientation should be given to the student's content or topic of readingfor the student in the "Pre-reading" section and a review of the word brainstormingactivity related to the topic

"Reading" of each unit requires teachers to be more creative and invest more time inthe preparation of lectures In fact, in the past years, many teachers have not focused

on exploiting the content of lectures,

3 More specifically, to solve two basic types of exercises effectively: fill in words and read answers effectively:

3.1 Specific steps in teaching the reading and filling section:

If the words you need are filled with unfamiliar vocabulary, students rarely read

it, the teacher should add that vocabulary to the new words, but students do not have

to translate the whole paragraph, only read and understand the sentence containing theword to fill or the sentence before and after the blank

Note that students have meaningful and valuable information on the exercisesjust to guide the answers or information to be filled, because most exercises are linkedand related to each other

The teacher asks students to read the paragraph, then determines the type ofwords to fill (nouns, adjectives, verbs, phrasal verbs, prepositions, etc.) and predicts

the meaning of the word or phrase to be filled out, because it helps readers refine andchoose the closest information Students need to note the words or phrases before andafter the blank as they may be related to the word to be filled Ask students to identifylanguage knowledge related to the spaces to be filled (tenses, relative pronouns,conjunctions , comparisons, phrasal verbs …………)

Example: Exam questions for Semester 2 (2017-2018)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each

Most people today take relatively little general exercise Over the last 30 or 40years lifestyles have changed considerably and many people now travel even(1) shortest distances by car or bus Lack of exercise combined with eating toomany fatty and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat.Experts are particularly concerned that children (2) a lot of their free timewatching television or playing computer games instead of being physically active

In recent years, however, there has been a growing (3) in fitness amongyoung adults and many belong to a sports club or gym Membership of a sports club

or gym can be (4) and not everyone can afford the subscription Local sportscentres are generally cheaper Evening classes are also cheap and offer a wide variety

of fitness activities ranging (5) yoga to jazz dancing

Some companies now provide sports facilities for their employees or contribute

to the cost of joining a gym

3: A interestingly B interest C interesting D interested

*Instruct students to do the test:

+ Question 1: A -> The + adj –est: Compare best quotient with the article "the".

+ Question 2: D -> Spend + time / money + V-ing.

+ Sentence 3: B -> Word form: A + adj + noun: interest (n).

+ Sentence 4: D -> Word meaning: we rely on the meaning of the previous sentence

or the next sentence to guess the word to fill "And not everyone can afford thesubscription: and no one can manage to raise" or based on the words in the selectedanswers: popular, easy, cheap: "positive meaning"; expensive: "negative meaning"

+ Question 5: B -> Need prepositions so we rely on the word before the blank: "range

from …… to"

For example, the 2016 national exam: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

THE DANGERS OF DIETING

Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down infront of computers than ever before, the (1) of overweight people is at a newhigh As people frantically search for a solution(2) this problem, they often trysome of the popular fad diets being offered Many people see fad diets(3) harmless ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them Unfortunately,not only don’t fad diets usually (4) the trick, they can actually be dangerousfor your health

Although permanent weight loss is the (5) , few are able to achieve it.Experts estimate that 95 percent of dieters return to their starting weight, or even(6) weight While the reckless use of fad diets can bring some (7) results, long-term results are very rare (8) , people who are fed up with thedifficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to fad diets (9) beingmoderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes They advise eating only onetype of food, or they prohibit other types of foods entirely This results in a situation(10) a person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and other things that it needs

to stay healthy

Adapted from “Active Skills for Reading: Book 3” by Neil J Anderson

1: A number B range C amount D sum

2: A on B of C to D with

5: A case B profit C benefit D goal

7: A initial B initiative C initiating D initiate

8: A Additionally B Furthermore C Nonetheless D Consequently 9: A More than B In spite of C Rather than D In addition to

*Instruct students to do the test:

+ Sentence 1: Teacher helps students remember how to use the phrases: "a number of

and the number of + countable noun in plural" but "the amount of + Noun in singular"

so the answer is A

+ Question 2: Check prepositions so we determine the preceding word: solution + to

(they learned in lesson 1 english 12)

+ Question 3: Help students distinguish the meaning of "like: like" and "as: as", both

of which function as a preposition, so we choose "see as " Answer D

Sentence 4: help students strengthen and distinguish the meaning of "word

collocations": do the trick = do the job: succeed in a job; "Play trick": naughty

Question 5: "Word meaning": answer D: goal.

Question 6: "Word collocations": gain weight = put on weight ≠ lose weight: answer:

B

Question 7: Word form: "adj + result (n)"; : "Initiative (n), initial (adj), initiate (v)":

answer A

Question 8: Helping students with matching words "conjunction: in additional =

furthermore; nonetheless = however ”so the answer: C

Question 9: Distinguish linking words "more than = in addition; rather than = instead

of; inspite of: phrases of concession ”, answer: C