Stephen van Vlack

Sookmyung Women`s University

Graduate School of TESOL

Teaching Reading

Syllabus - Fall 2003

Week 1; September 1

Introductions to the course, to the materials, instructor, assignments, and everything else.

Homework: Get the textbook and materials.

Read chapters 1, 2, and 3 from Nuttall, pp. 1-39.

Week 2; September 8

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 1, 2 and 3

What is reading?

Text and discourse

Approaching reading in a foreign language classroom

Homework: Read Vacca, Vacca, and Gove, Chapter 3, pp. 67-102.

Week 3; September 15

Vacca, Vacca, and Gove (2000), Chapter 3

Early Literacy: From birth to school

Homework: Read Gaur article, pp. 19-30.

Read Rogers article, pp. 31-43.

Week 4; September 22

Gaur (1995)

Scripts and writing systems: A historical perspective

Rogers (1995)

Optimal Orthographies

Homework: Read Venezky article, pp. 111-119.

Read Scholes article, pp. 359-273.

Week 5; September 29

Venezsky (1995)

How English is read: Grapheme-phoneme regularity and orthographic structure in word recognition

Scholes (1995)

Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness

Homework: Read Morrow, pp, 239-277.

Week 6; October 6

Morrow (2001), Chapter 8

Word-study skills: phonemic awareness and phonics

Homework: Read Ong, chapters 1 and 3, pp. 5-15 and 31-77.

Week 7; October 13

Ong (1982), Chapters 1 and 3

The orality of language

Some psychodynamics of orality

Homework: Read Ong, Chapter 4, pp. 78-116.

Week 8; October 20

Ong (1982), Chapter 4

Writing restructures consciousness

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 4 and 5, pp. 44-77.

Week 9; October 27

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 4 and 5

Efficient reading

Word attack skills

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 6 and 7, pp. 78-124.

Week 10; November 3

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 6 and 7

Reading for plain sense

Understanding discourse

Homework: Read Grellett, Chapter III pp. 130-238.

Week 11; November 10

Grellet, Chapter III

Understanding meaning

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapter 8, pp. 127-148.

Read Pilgren, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-18.

Week 12; November 17

Nuttall (1996), Chapter 8

An extensive reading program

Pilgreen (2000), Chapters 1 and 2

SSR: Its roots and rationale

The eight factors for SSR success

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 9 and 10, pp. 149-180.

Week 13; November 24

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 9 and 10

Planning reading lessons

Selecting texts

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 11 and 12, pp. 181-211

Week 14; December 1

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 11 and 12

Questioning