Making Implicit Practices Explicit: Developing Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction in the English Classroom

Lisbeth Brevik, an associate professor at University of Oslo, in Norway will give the first workshop in the Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series.

This workshop will address characteristics of strategy instruction and use in the English classroom. Considering findings from her own research and on her work with training teachers and instructors about strategies and reading, Lisbeth will examine the extent to which teachers might move beyond an implicit emphasis on reading strategies in their instruction, in order to help young people to develop as strategic readers necessary for becoming active and responsible participants in today’s society. Referring to classroom observations in situ and video observations of classroom instruction, participants will also be presented to the Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation (PLATO) to examine own reading instruction and how to profit from a detailed and systematic lens on own reading instruction.

 

***Coffee and Muffins served after the workshop

 

If you have questions about the event, please contact Professor Cindy Brantmeier at cbrantme@wustl.edu.

The Washington University Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Education, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.