March 23, 25 Word Attack Skills

Think about how well you have trained word attack skills to effectively use three strategies (p.66-73) in English class throughout your secondary school years. What strategies were more highlighted? Or what strategies were ignored? Tell us how you want to teach word attack skills to your students in the future.

I think that structure clue is most important strategies and using a dictionary can be ignored for advanced students, but intermediate students are not. They need to use a dictionary at first, then move on structure clue. The reason why the strategy is different according to student's level is that intermediate students have not words knowledge and vocabulary information. So, they easy to be tired and forgive reading text. First of all they have to know some vocabularies meaning and base words.

when they cultivate their word ability, they can inference from context. It can help to arrive at a more satisfactory interpretation of unfamiliar words. Finally, structural clues is needed. If Inference from context is amateur inference skill, Structural clues is more professional.

So, I want to teach student using inference from context like P. 70. I think that it is suitable in Korea English classroom.