Introducing Literature at the Intermediate Level

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Introducing Literature at the Intermediate Level

• Students in 300-level may very well be at a low
  intermediate stage of acquisition
• Strategies
• Careful selection of texts
• Pre-reading activities providing cultural
  background information
• Interaction with the text
• Visual schemas, questions to guide reading.

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• Progression in the presentation of text
  complexity in
• Text Structure
• Linguistic Structure
• Cultural Background Information
• USE the INPUT 1 strategy

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Examples from narratives

• Text 1
• Urban cultural background. Similar values and
  attitudes to the learners
• A linear narration
• Familiar dialectal variety (if not introduce
  vocabulary in pre-reading activities)

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• Text 2
• Introduce variation in cultural background
  through pre-reading activities through
  comparisons
• Introduce the notion of non-linear narration use
  visual examples movies, etc.
• _ Introduce the notions of synchronic and
  diachronic language variation before presenting a
  text in a less familiar variety. Are you yourself
  aware of the variations in text structure and in
  syntactic and lexical structure? Provide students
  with a guide for such variation.

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Matrix Guided-Reading

• Scenes (identify a sequence)
• Familiar
• Unexpected

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INTERPRETING THE TEXT PRECIS

• What is the text FOCUS?
• What is the LOGIC or the GOAL of the text?
• What are its IMPLICATIONS?