Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TOPIC 1: Overview
- Literature in the Malaysian Primary ESL Classroom
- Objectives
- 1. to instill and inculcate the reading habit among pupils.
- 2. to enrich pupils' vocabulary and language content.
- 3. to enhance pupils' thinking skills.
- 4. to promote cultural understanding in the Malaysian context.
- 5. to improve English language proficiency of pupils.
- 6. to provide lively, enjoyable and high-interest readings.
- Why?
- Music is highly memorable and motivating.
- Songs, rhymes and chants are ideal tools to be used in the language classroom.
- To introduce, reinforce and recycle structures and vocabulary.
- To develop all skills in an integrated way.
- To help improve all aspects of pronunciation: stress, rhythm and intonation of the target language.
- To present new language in a new rich and imaginative context.
- To encourage physical involvement.
- To contribute to the learning of the cultural component of the language.
- To contribute to the development of a positive attitude towards the language learning.
- To help to develop a positive relation between teachers and students.
- They promote the practice of pronunciation, intonation and stress.
- They are a nice way to introduce, practice and review vocabulary.
- They are useful to practice writing.
- They enrich the knowledge of cultural features.
- They are a way of developing of language skills.
- When?
- as a warm up
- as a transition
- to introduce new language structures
- to practice or revise language
- to integrate with storytelling
- Purposes of Using Songs and Poetry
- Personal Development
- Intrapersonal
- The growth within yourself that is having an understanding of yourself, of knowing who you are and what you can do.
- Inspire the students to develop and believe in their abilities.
- Interpersonal
- Students must learn to work with others by building a positive social relationship and learning how to work as a team.
- Students learn how to communicate, socialize and negotiate with friends, respect as well as to help each other.
- Linguistic Development
- improve listening and sound discrimination skills
- improve grammar and accents.
- as a classroom activity use for learning structures.
- promote listening and speaking exercises practices through different tasks.
- fun and interesting way to learn the language structure and grammar.
- nice way to introduce, practice an review vocabulary.
- useful to practice writing and reading skills.
- Aesthetic Development
- The study of the emotions and the mind in relation to their sense of beauty in literature and other fine arts.
- Activities: pottery, crafts, embroidery, painting, origami, soft-toys & puppet making
- Cultural Considerations
- Cultural biasness
- Sensitivity to the impact of culturally-induced behavior
- Familiarity to learners' background knowledge
- The use of words or expressions which are perceived as inappropriate, offensive or vulgar in the context of the students.