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Contents
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Phonological awareness.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
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REMEDIAL ACTIVITIES
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REMEDIAL ACTIVITIES
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Purpose for carrying out remedial
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activities
To help learners overcome gaps and errors in
their English, especially fossilized errors.
To make learners notice their mistakes or errors
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Purpose for carrying out remedial
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activities
To help students who are slow achievers in a
particular area especially those who still
cannot grasp the information that has been
taught.
To monitor learners’ mistakes or slips.
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General Principles for Planning Remedial
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General Principles for Planning Remedial
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Frequency of mistakes
Check the frequency of mistakes the student makes throughout
the lesson.
Some mistakes are found very often in the learners’ speech.
This can determine the type of remedial work suitable for the
student.
Study each mistake chosen, find the reasons why the learners
make the mistake, and look at ways for re-teaching or
correcting, using new techniques and procedures.
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General Principles for Planning Remedial
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Feelings of learners
The learners should be able to see that it is possible
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Effects of Mistakes
Some mistakes are found frequently in a learner’s
work but they do not make it difficult for anyone to
understand what the learner is trying to say.
Mistakes with ‘a’ and ‘the’, plurals, agreement, and
many pronunciation mistakes.
Other mistakes, like the use of stress, vocabulary,
and certain sentence patterns, make it very difficult
for someone to understand what the learner is
trying to say.
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General Principles for Planning Remedial
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Advantages of Remedial Activities
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What are phonological awareness skills?
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They include:
the ability to identify phonemes (the smallest unit of
sound),
identify and generate rhyming words,
count syllables,
sound of a word.
- (Adams, 1994; Yopp & Yopp, 2004).
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How do children develop phonological
awareness?
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By listening to:
rhymes and poems;
singing songs;
and noticing that some words begin with the same sound.
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Suggested remedial activity –
Phonological awareness
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Example: Onset and Rime
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TASK
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References
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