Southern New Hampshire University

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Southern New Hampshire University

• MS TEFL Program
• EFL CALL 537
• Web-Based Lesson Introducing Electronic
  Newspapers
• Presenter Aymen Elsheikh
• Instructor Lyra Riabov
• 03/03/05

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Content

• Class Description
• Materials
• Objectives
• Procedure
• Closing
• Evaluation

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Class Description

• Native Language background Arabic
• Language Proficiency Level Intermediate
• Age Adults
• Class Time One hour
• Number of Students 12
• Previous Computer WorkE-mail and an online
  dictionary
• Goals Improvement of reading skills, enrich
  vocabulary, gain some cultural knowledge, and be
  up to date with current situations in the world.

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Materials

• Todays Newspaper (English version, Sudan Now, a
  daily local newspaper)
• Computers with internet access
• Selected articles from e-paper
• Whiteboard
• Word wall
• Online dictionary

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Objectives

• Language Objectives
• Students will be able to skim, scan, and
  summarize newspaper articles.
• Students will be able to develop reading skills.
• Students will be able to develop speaking skills
  through discussion.
• Students will be able to learn new words and
  enrich their vocabulary.

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Objectives

• Computer Literacy Objectives
• Students will be able to develop skills in
  surfing the web.
• Students will be able to develop skills using the
  mouse.
• Students will be able to identify various
  sections of an e-paper.

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Procedure (Warm Up)

• Write objectives on the board and go over orally.
• Discuss techniques of how to read the newspaper.
• Introduce skimming and scanning, define them
  and use todays local paper for demonstration.

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Procedure.(Presentation)

• Introduce and show the web site
  http//www.onlinenewspapers.com/index.htm.
• Guide the students to get to The New York
  Times, ask them to locate different topic areas
  such as front page, weather, classifieds, etc.
• In pairs, ask them to go back to the news page
  and select an article to summarize.
• Have them report their summaries as a whole class.

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Procedure(Practice)

• In pairs, give them an e-paper article with the
  first sentence in each paragraph deleted. Have
  them put the sentences in the correct places in
  the article.
• Give them scrambled paragraphs from a different
  article and have them re-order it.
• Give them another article with certain bolded
  vocabulary words and ask them to guess the
  meaning from the context.

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Assessment(Follow Up Activity)

• Have them look up an article from an e-paper to
  practice skimming and scanning. Then, summarize
  the article in their own words. Ask them to print
  out the article and turn it in with their
  summaries.

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Closing

• Problems
• Students may not agree with each other when
  selecting articles that interest them.
• They may feel nervous due to lack of experience
  in navigating through the web.
• Some students might not have access to internet
  outside of the classroom.

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Evaluation

• Collect their summaries in the next class and
  evaluate them.
• Teachers observation. Create an observation
  chart to record students progress.