On 18 November 2010 was held in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, a training seminar. It was conducted by two regional Fachberachtern, namely Mr and Mrs Mbogbé Mbogbé Monasanen Honorine. It was then visited by the German teachers who work in the secondary schools of the city of Douala. The meeting aims to provide the learners with the desire to teach and to teach reading strategies to read texts independently, understand and interpret was able.
introduction to the topic
After the round vision and the formulation the expectations of the participants presented the Technical Adviser Monasanen the outlines of the meeting and then emphasized the importance of reading in German classes. Quite taken globally, will read texts, to orient itself to inform and educate you to. Reading is a skill, a skill that develops only over time, really.
came in interactive discussions on the participants to speak out and examined such specific methods that could be used in class to motivate students to read. From the various discussions one thing was clear: These days, the students are less interested and sometimes not for reading. They inform prefer using television and the Internet, which unfortunately affects negative Einfluβ their education. The meeting was mainly aimed to revise the role of reading in German class and strengthen. In reading, there is almost always an intention.
You can read a text in three ways, which are interaction, perception and production of meaning:
cursory reading, heiβt quick and superficial reading
total or intensive reading, heiβt slow and thorough reading to you the content to erschlieβen
selegierendes or selective reading, heiβt, after a larger quantity of certain text Select criteria a number of similar things to read.
muβ In this regard, we train the students only that they achieve reading comprehension with certain intentions. They need namely strategies to decode text and task to solve the text.
reading strategies
strategies are mental tools that will help students to understand texts and their content better. They are used to activate prior knowledge on the subject to understand the text structure and main and auxiliary information (the unknown / The Unimportant) to assign. In general, allow reading strategies to use information to identify main ideas and to understand the text intention.
strategy mediation
In German class, the teacher can use the following tasks to train strategies:
divide texts into sections.
With the help of W-questions, the key messages of text capture highlight and activate
own prior knowledge and expectations, formulate texts
questions about the text content to answer
Certain statements for the texts to be "right" or "wrong" rate
assessment of the meeting and farewell lap
were Schlieβlich presents the results of the various groups in plenary and discussed. The seminar is rounded off with an appeal of the Fachberachters Mbogbé to the participants to apply the newly acquired Kenntisse in their classes.
CHANTCHO William, German Teacher - Douala
