Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching by Jeong-Bae Son

Author:Jeong-Bae Son
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Task 6.1 Teaching Reading with a Word Cloud

Background

In teaching reading, teachers need to help language learners develop reading skills (e.g., skimming, scanning, using clues, inference from context) and strategies (e.g., recognising text structure, integrating information, using general knowledge, solving vocabulary problems) and get engaged in reading. Word cloud generators are one of online tools teachers can consider using for reading activities. For example, teachers can create a word cloud (a visual representation of a text) from a specific text, show it to learners before they begin reading the text and have a quick discussion about the key ideas and main ideas of the text. As the importance of each word is shown with font size, the words that are larger than other words give learners some clues to what they are about to read.

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