KOTESOL National Conference 2018
Workshop (45 minutes)
Ana Maria Flores, Nanzan University, Nagoya
Matching the Tasks and the Learners' Experience
Abstract
This presentation is about fashioning reading activities that have students do tasks using knowledge that is already within their experience, thereby increasing motivation. The presenter will demonstrate how folklores and folktales that pertain to the students’ native language and native culture are suitable to call upon the learners’ existing schemata. Furthermore, that implementing a course of study utilizing the same as a cornerstone will make the students have a new appreciation of English. This presentation will give details of the step by step procedure from the selection of the folklores and folktales, to the reading activities, and finally to the final students’ output, which is a story map that will be used to retell the story without the benefit of looking at any reading text or notes. At the end of this presentation, the participants will have learned that teaching and learning materials that may have been underrated and outmoded are still useful and valuable to learning if applied with appropriate and effective approaches and if the goals are purposeful and productive.
Biographicals
Ana Maria Zabala Villanueva Flores believes that she has a relatively long name but with a one-syllable nickname “An.” She received a private-school education from kindergarten to graduate degree. She is currently a Language Instructor at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. A full-time mom, a wife, and a novice vlogger.
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