This presentation is about practicing reading comprehension test using a website entitled "Infosquare.com". It's been applied in an Advanced Class in Tehran Institute of Technology - Mirdamad on Saturday, June 7, 2014.

1. Teaching Reading
www.infosquares.com
Advanced 1
Tehran Institute of Technology
Mirdamad Branch
Jaleh Panahi
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8, 2014
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2. Class Description
O6 students in the class
O5 men and a woman
OAverage age around 25
OBasically heterogeneous class
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3. Physical Context
Description
O Well – equipped classroom context
O White board
O Screen
O OHP
O 6 complete systems in front of each student
O Free WiFi
O Open VPN
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4. Instruction
O Learners were fully instructed about the
website.
O It was shown on the screen at first to make
them familiar with it and show them how
they have to work with that.
O The website was opened in each system
enabling learners to have full and free
access to the page.
O The topic was chosen after a around 10
minutes scrolling up and down.
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6. Process
OThey were given 15 minutes to read
the text and find the best answer for
each questions.
ONo dictionary was allowed.
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8. Observing
O As I could observe all the 6 monitors, I saw
how baffled they were.
O All the time they were shuffling through
the two tabs to find the answers in the text.
O Only one or two of them felt easy with the
text and questions.
O In the following slides you will find each
student’s score sheet.
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9. Result – Student 1
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10. Result – Student 2
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11. Result – Student 3
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12. Result – Student 4
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13. Result – Student 5
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14. Result – Student 6
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15. Review/ Comment - Fodey
O Right after getting learners’ score they were
asked to write a review or comments using
Fodey!
O They are well familiar with this tool, as they
have been asked to write some piece of
news or headlines using the same tool.
O In the following slides, you may see their
comments about the text and generally the
website.
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16. Student 1 - Review
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17. Student 2 - Review
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18. Student 3 - Review
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19. Student 4 - Review
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20. Student 5 - Review
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21. Student 6 - Review
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22. Ending Note
O As you have seen in the previous slides, one of
the student did really bad in the test and his
review was sort of pertinent to his test result.
O Two of them did well, they enjoyed working
with the website, and the rest was sort of ok
with that.
O Perhaps if I as the teacher had the chance to
slightly modify the test or questions, it might
have had a better effect on my students.
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23. Thank You all for your patience and your
comments and feedback is highly appreciated.
Jaleh Panahi
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Thank You