Integrated Extensive and Intensive Reading for Elementary Students

Abstract

Introduction Purpose: Increase students motivation in reading through the integration of fun and meaningful listening, reading, speaking and writing activities. Rationale: Extensive reading is one of the most effective ways in acquiring language skills. Target learners: 5th to 6th grade elementary school students, mixed gender Proficiency: Level 3 to 4 according to the World-class Instructional Design and Assessment Scale (WIDA) Learning context: after-school programs

Method Communicative Language Teaching Task-based Language Teaching

Expected outcomes Increase students' interest and motivation in extensive reading. Increase students’ reading knowledge – reading is not only reading the texts, but also reading a lot of different materials such as pictures and signs. Increase students' comprehensibility about the context. Develop students' communicative competence through the group/peer discussion Encourage students to learn from each other through cooperative learning environment