KOBASHI Masahiko
   Department   Notre Dame Seishin University  Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature
   Notre Dame Seishin University  , English Education Center
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2020/03/01
Type Scholarly Book
Title New Developments in Second Language Acquisition and English Language Teaching
Contribution Type Contributor
Journal TypeJapan
Volume, Issue, Page pp.73-93
Total page number 298
Responsible for A Study of Interactive Reading Instruction Model for Precise Understanding of Texts: Practical Combination of Top-down Processing Approach and Bottom-up Processing Approach
Details This paper presents an example of teaching using "Story Grammar" to appropriately extract and organize the information in a narrative text in order to grasp the outline. Since the purpose of narrative texts is to expect an emotional response from the reader, the structure of them is different from that of factual texts, which convey facts, information, or express opinions. When reading narrative texts, it is easier to grasp the outline and remember the content by using an appropriate reading comprehension strategy. The practice explained how to teach narrative texts by explicitly showing the structure of narrative texts to learners and having them acquire the structure of the texts as a formal schema. This paper is a rewrite of a paper already published in Notre Dame Seishin University (2019), "Annual Report of English Education Center - No. 4".