2021. 09. 14 ( The Seminar on Theory and Practice of Language Testing)

 

About the instructor:

1. Department of English, NCUE

2. Master of Arts in English Teaching (ETMA), NCCU

3. Retired from Xing Ya Junior High School Located in Taipei City in 2021

4. Currently, Chere Lin becomes the freelancer in the field of TESOL

*****Here comes the PowerPoint slides from the instructor, which are well-organized and informative.

We were honored to invite Chere Lin, an expert in language testing and reading strategies, talking about the theory and practice of teaching and testing on September 14, 2021. Miss Lin started by giving us English teachers a notion that we should teach our students reading structures and strategies. That is to say, we need to divert our attention on vocabulary and grammar to reading itself, which serves a wake-up call for us since the textbook in the past put an emphasis on grammatical rules and vocabulary memorization.

          Also, the theoretical underpinnings of reading comprehension were ushered in her lecture. In this way, we got to know what was going on regarding second language (L2) reading comprehension. Personally speaking, I prefer Schema Theory, which stresses the importance of background knowledge on L2 learners’ reading comprehension skills.

          What’s more, in the process of her lecture, Chere shared a lot of useful websites and resources for us to use when we want to try writing reading comprehension questions on our own. I think that it is quite practical because Corpus plays an important role in TESOL nowadays.

          At last, she mentioned that it takes time to make good reading comprehension questions. Therefore, only by practicing frequently can we make wonderful questions in accordance with the 108 Curriculum Guidelines.

*****If you want to download the handouts for Chere Lin's lecture, please click the following link:

          https://cherelin.cc/node/624