APPROACHES TO TEACH

READING
(Language Experience)
Definition
An approach to reading instruction based
on activities and stories developed from
personal experiences of the learner.
It uses words and stories from the
student's own language and experience.
The stories about personal experiences are written
down by a teacher and read together until the
learner associates the written form of the word
with the spoken.
Teacher should provide some type of common
experience that will inspire students to express
their thoughts.
Examples : a trip to the beach,
planting seeds, a visit to the dentist
or doctor.
BENEFITS
It brings together
writing, reading,
art, and language.

It extends the
learners' creativity
in storytelling
through writing.
It helps learners
understand that
what they think and
say can be written.
It provides reading material
that is predictable and
readable because it uses
the learners' natural
language.
It is learner-centred
and demonstrates
that the learners'
thoughts and
language are valued.
Theory
Learning is individualized
Fewer repetitions
Allows a smooth transition from
spoken to written language
Pupils do not have enough English
proficiency to dictate their own stories.
Teacher-student ratio makes
individualization very difficult.
Difficulties
LEA as an effective method to
teach reading
LEA is an effective method to teach reading
because it allows students to directly see the
correspondence between spoken and written
words, and gives students an opportunity to
read their own words, which are familiar and
meaningful to them.
How To Use Language Experience
Approach?
Language experience approach can be used
with individual students or groups.
1. Have the students choose an experience that
they would like to write about.
- For groups, this should be a shared
experience(field trip or sports day)
- For individual students, it could be anything
that the student feels is important or
interesting(cartoons ,hobbies or foods)

2. Discuss the experience with the students. This
helps them to clarify what they want to write
about, organize their thoughts, and come up
with specific, descriptive vocabulary.
3. Write the story down as the students dictate
it
- Try to stick to the students' own words exactly
as they are spoken
- with a minimum of correction for grammar or
sentence structure.
4. Read the text aloud.
- After reading the text to the students, have
them reread it aloud.
- Students can illustrate their individual texts
and read them aloud to the class.