Effective Strategies for Teaching English Prose - A Comprehensive Guide
Teaching English prose is a fundamental aspect of language education, focusing on reading comprehension, vocabulary enrichment, and writing skills. This guide covers the objectives of teaching prose, including enhancing comprehension, pronunciation, vocabulary, and writing abilities. It emphasizes intensive and extensive teaching methods, aiming to develop students' reading, writing, and listening skills while fostering a love for literature.
- Teaching English Prose
- Language Education
- Reading Comprehension
- Vocabulary Enrichment
- Writing Skills
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M.Rizvana M.A.,B.Ed.,M.phil Assistant Professor of English H.K.R.H College English Language Teaching and Phonetics Teaching of Prose
TEACHING OF PROSE
Teaching of prose is an important and basic feature in the teaching of English Language The teaching of English Prose means teaching reading with comprehension. The teacher, after having taught the prose lesson, should enable the pupils to read the lesson properly and at the same time with comprehension The teaching of prose includes both the intensive and extensive reading
Best Ideas, social problems descriptive order Characteristics Essay , novel, short story Imagination, experiences
Enriches the Vocabulary LSRW Characteristics Expressional Abilities
OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING PROSE To enable the learners to comprehend the passage and grasp its meaning. To enable the learners to read English words and sentences loudly with correct pronunciation, stress, intonation, pause and articulation of voice To enable them to understand the passage by silent reading. To enrich the student`s active and passive vocabularies To acquaint pupils with the style of the author.
To enable the learners develop the ability to write independently, accurately and creatively on subjects of general interest. To give the students practice of structure and sentence pattern. To enable them to get knowledge contain in the content. To enable them to enjoy reading and listening. To make the students library minded and develop the interest for extra reading.
TYPES IN TEACHING PROSE INTENSIVELY EXTENSIVELY
TEACHING PROSE INTENSIVELY In this type, the text book is read thoroughly word by word. According to Bacon, the text book is to be chewed and digested . Students are required to read, comprehend as well as to master the presented structure and vocabulary. In detailed prose lesson each and every difficult word, idiom or phrase is completely explained to the students so that they could grasp them firmly and effectively.
TEACHING PROSE EXTENSIVELY In extensive studies, the teacher s duty is only to assist the students understand the lesson. Non-detailed prose lesson aims at giving information and pleasure. The main purpose is to give general comprehension and create taste for extensive reading. They develop rapid reading habits.
PROCEDURE OF TEACHING PROSE LESSONS For teaching prose, there is a need of a well prepared lesson plan. Different scholars have suggested different types of lesson plans.
STEPS IN PROCEDURE OF TEACHING PROSE Preparation Presentation Recapitulation Assignment or Homework
PREPARATION English is a foreign language and the students find it difficult to learn so, there should be an effective motivation by the teacher. Whatever the teacher does to attract students to learn the lesson attentively comes under this preparation process
TEACHING AIDS PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE PREPARATION INTRODUCTION STATEMENT OF AIM
PRESENTATION This is the main part of the procedure of teaching process. To present the lesson before pupils interestingly and efficiently the teacher should teach the lesson in two or more units. If the lesson is too short, only one unit should be made.
PRESENTATION Pronunciation Drill Model Reading Blackboard Work Loud Reading Comprehension Question Silent Reading Exposition and Explanation
EXPOSITION AND EXPLANATION To clear the meaning of difficult words, phrases and idioms To make the comprehension of passage easy and effective. To prepare the students for intensive reading.
There are various methods which can be employed for Exposition and Explanation of the subject matter. Some of them are: Translation Method Direct Method Usage Method Similar word Method Contrasted word Method Derivation Method Reference Method
RECAPITULATION There should be recapitulation of the lesson, after the presentation of one or more parts of the lesson. This will make the students recall the learnt concepts. The recapitulation is generally done with the help of questions. These questions are different from comprehension questions
ASSIGNMENT OR HOMEWORK Students should be given some assignments regarding the subject matter taught. Content Words: Content Words comprise of Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. Structural Words: Structural Words have a little or no meaning in themselves. But they bind together other words to make Phrases, Clauses and Sentences. Structural Words are also called Functional Words.
