1. Module 2
Management of Technological Resources for the
Teaching and Administration of the English
Language (Part I)
UTEC Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Faculty of Social Sciences
English Department
Planning an on line course 20% of final grade
1. Group’s members:
1. _Andres Tobar Cruz_________________________ (Coordinator)
2. Carlos Armando Martinez Chicas_______________
3. _Carlos Ernesto Salazar Majano________________
4. _Roxana Landaverde:________________________
5. __________________________________________
2. Topic of the course and explain why do you think would be a good course.
Types of Reading strategies for TOELF test
3. Audience: write a description of the people that will be taught with the course.
This course will be taught to students that are in the middle at the 6th and 7th semester of the
B.A in English at Utec The ages of those students will be between 18 year old and 25 year
old.
4. General Objective
At the end of the course students will be able to apply the reading strategies as well as
life experience in order to understand the types of readings that English requires at the time of
doing the TOEFL test.
2. 5. Units of study
1 Scanning 5 Meaning form context
(Vocabulary)
2 Skimming 6 Identifying patterns of organization
3 Getting Gist 7 Intensive reading
4 Grammar 8 Extensive reading
6. Bibliography
Books
Mosaic of Thought : Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
by Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann
Strategies That Work : Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding -- by
Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
Websites
Mosaic of Thought Listserv including a dastabase of book titles teachers use to teach
each strategy.
http://www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/
ReadingLady.com Comprehension activities and lessons that follow Mosaic of
Thought and Strategies that Work
http://www.readinglady.com/Comprehension/comprehension.html
Madison Metropolitan School District Language Arts Page
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/mosaic.htm#directions