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    This document discusses the teaching of prose. It defines prose as meant for learning a language through reading with comprehension. Teaching prose enables students to understand passages, read fluently, enrich their vocabulary, and enjoy reading and writing. The general aims of teaching prose are to help students comprehend passages, improve pronunciation and reading skills, understand passages through silent reading, expand vocabulary, and express ideas orally and in writing. The specific aims vary depending on the prose type, such as exposing students to great people's lives through biographies or providing opportunities for self-expression through plays. The teaching process involves introducing the lesson, teaching structures, vocabulary, and model/silent reading, as well as testing comprehension and application.

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    This document discusses the teaching of prose. It defines prose as meant for learning a language through reading with comprehension. Teaching prose enables students to understand passages, read fluently, enrich their vocabulary, and enjoy reading and writing. The general aims of teaching prose are to help students comprehend passages, improve pronunciation and reading skills, understand passages through silent reading, expand vocabulary, and express ideas orally and in writing. The specific aims vary depending on the prose type, such as exposing students to great people's lives through biographies or providing opportunities for self-expression through plays. The teaching process involves introducing the lesson, teaching structures, vocabulary, and model/silent reading, as well as testing comprehension and application.

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    This document discusses the teaching of prose. It defines prose as meant for learning a language through reading with comprehension. Teaching prose enables students to understand passages, read fluently, enrich their vocabulary, and enjoy reading and writing. The general aims of teaching prose are to help students comprehend passages, improve pronunciation and reading skills, understand passages through silent reading, expand vocabulary, and express ideas orally and in writing. The specific aims vary depending on the prose type, such as exposing students to great people's lives through biographies or providing opportunities for self-expression through plays. The teaching process involves introducing the lesson, teaching structures, vocabulary, and model/silent reading, as well as testing comprehension and application.

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    TEACHING OF PROSE

    Definition of Prose

     Prose is meant for learning a language. Teaching prose means


    teaching reading with comprehension. The learners are taught the
    skill of reading. The next step is to teach them reading with
    comprehension. Reading with comprehension helps the learners
    to acquire new vocabulary and content words. The power of
    comprehension can be promoted through reading and listening.
    Continue….

     Teaching prose enables the students to understand the


    passage, to read fluently, to enrich their vocabulary
    and to enjoy reading and writing. It enables the
    learners to extend their knowledge of vocabulary and
    structures and to become more proficient in the four
    language skills. It develops the ability of speaking
    English correctly and fluently.
    GENERAL  AIMS OF TEACHING
    PROSE:
     To enable the students

     To understand the passage and grasp its meaning.


     To read with correct pronunciation, stress, intonation, pause and
    articulation of voice.
     To enable students to understand the passage by silent reading.
     To enrich their active and passive vocabulary.
     To express the ideas of the passage orally and in writing.
     To enjoy reading and writing.
     To develop their imagination.
     To prepare the students for world citizenship.
    SPECIFIC AIMS:
    The specific aims of prose change according to the subject matter like
    biography, play, story and essay.

     SPECIFIC AIMS OF AN ESSAY:


     The learners learn a few facts through the essay.
     To make students curious about the subject of  essay.
     Exposure to the style of essay-writing.
     To arrange ideas in an organized manner.
     SPECIFIC AIMS OF A BIOGRAPHY:
     The learners are exposed to the lives of great men.
     To mould one’s character.
     Aspiration for better things in life.
     To inculcate in them desirable sentiments.
     SPECIFIC AIMS OF A PLAY:
     To provide opportunities for self-expression.
     To play different roles.
     To speak English in the conversational style.
     To mould one’s character.
     DIFFERENT STEPS INVOLVED IN TEACHING PROSE:
     A prose lesson is not for memorization of questions and answers
    but for learning a language. The prose lesson contains structure,
    vocabulary, grammar, views and ideas for comprehension. The
    students read prose with comprehension and write sentences
    about the lesson using the correct structures and content words.
     The steps for teaching of prose may be summed up as follows.
     1.   Introducing the prose lesson
     2.   Teaching structures
     3.   Dividing the text into smaller units
     4.   Teaching vocabulary
     5.   Model reading by the teacher
     6.   Silent reading by the students
     7.   Testing comprehension
     8.   Testing application
     9.   Loud reading by the students and
     10. Giving assignment

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