Reading and Teaching Principles
Reading and Teaching Principles
Reading and Teaching Principles
READING PRINCIPLES
AND TEACHING
RISA TRIASSANTI
THE NATURE AND TEACHING READING
• Writing system based on sounds or based on spoken form : Devanagri in India, Arabic in
Egypt, Roman Alphabet in western Europe.
• English has inconsistent spelling :though : cough : laugh : through.
• Chinese writing form based on meaning
THE WHOLE WORD VS PHONIC
DECODING
Phonic/decoding approach (c-h-i-l-d) The whole word (a child plays at the park)
Written forms speech formsmeaning Sounds new words based on meaning
Starts with mastery of sound of the letter Focus on meaning and communication not on speech
Focus on sound rather than meaning Children have memory capacity on whole words
Phonic training following the whole words stocks Read aloud takes longer than silent reading
Phonemes value can be learned from natural self Children have ability to learn vocabs and syntactic
discovery structure of their language.
The purpose of reading is not to facilitate writing and They have analytical skill through the self analytic or
spelling induction
Boring and too confusing Phrases/sentences inputsearch for
regularitiesforms
Individual uttered sounds do not naturally blends
into word.
RESEARCH SUPPORTING INDUCTION
• Reading should involve only meaningfull words , phrases and sentences (familiar and close to
child environtment)
• Reading should not depends on teaching new language.
• Reading should be based on speech understanding not based on speech production.
• Reading should not depends on teaching writing
• Learning to read should be enjoyable
FOUR PHASES IN TEACHING READING