Pedagogy of English

Teaching prose

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2. According to Coleridge prose is ‘words in their best order.’ Our aim in teaching the prose lesson is to improve the language ability of the pupils. It is to enable the pupils to learn certain carefully graded sentence structures and words. Teaching prose

3. When the teacher teaches a prose lesson he concentrates on the vocabulary, structure and the teaching items. A prose lesson should provide plenty of language activity by the students. Language activity includes; Listening to the language The aking the language
Reading in the language an d Writing in the language

4. Each lesson introduces a few new words and one or two sentence patterns. These new words and sentence patterns are learnt through an intensive study of the Reader. The two fold aim of intensive reading is the promotion of a deeper knowledge of the language and development of powers of expression.

5. The teacher should proceed in the following way in teaching a passage intensively. Introduction or revision
Model teaching by the teacher word study Silent reading by the pupils
Testing the comprehension L oud reading by the pupils Assignment