[etni] Fwd: literature
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From: Marlene <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: literature
Once upon a time, in the 1960's, students in high school, 12th grade
had to study English literature for the Bagrut. HOTS hadn't been
invented yet, but there were questions to be answered. The students
studied for the exam. A decade or so later, the oral bagrut was added
to test English for communication. The students practiced with their
teachers and/or volunteers. They knew how to speak English, a very
practical skill for today's job market. Nevertheless, students at
university, found academic texts extremely challenging. Therefore,
additional practice with unseens was demanded. Students stopped
preparing for exams, I.e., unseens. Tutors and private schools held
marathon sessions practicing the art of answering unseens. Even the
low level student will be able to answer the questions with the
special technique even without understanding!! But enough with LOTS
and on with HOTS. Students now will be their own teachers and analyze
their method of understanding. So now students come to college and can
tackle academic texts. Or can they? They've got holes in their
knowledge - of the passive tense, vocabulary, word families, use of
the dictionary, etc. These topics should have been covered in the
earlier grades. Authentic literature is fine for the native
speaker/strong student. The others require the simplified version or
at least glossed. The content is great - but if you have to look up
every word - it's too difficult.
Marlene
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