English Teaching

ELT365 · Day 166 — While-Reading Tasks: Guiding Attention

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Idea — While-reading tasks should guide learners through the text, not test them after the fact. The task shapes what they notice and how deeply they process.

Example — Learners read and underline every phrase that expresses the writer’s opinion. They don’t answer comprehension questions — they annotate. The annotation is the task.

Try — Design a while-reading task that uses annotation, ordering, or matching rather than traditional questions. Notice whether it changes how carefully learners read.


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