[Kerala University English Teacher
Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]
A question asked for the First Semester Examination,
April
2011 ( Q # 12 Paper V :
Principles of Pedagogic Analysis:
English) was rarely attempted by students.
A specimen answer is given below. I hope you will find it useful.
Q. How will you teach ‘reported speech’
through Constructivist Approach ?
Ans. While teaching, the teacher follows
the following six phases :Situation,
Grouping, Bridging, Question, Exhibit and Reflection.
Situation
The teacher writes the
following sentences on the Blackboard:
A. Raju
said “I am going to my house”.
B. She
says her brother met with an accident.
C. Father
said “I have finished the work”
D. Raju said that he was going to his house.
E. She
said, “My sister left for Delhi”.
F. Father
said that he had finished the work.
Grouping
The teacher directs the
students to group the six sentences
Pupils accordingly
group sentences A,C and E in one group and the rest in another group.
Bridging
The teacher now
attempts to bridge the new knowledge the
students have to learn with the knowledge
they already have. The teacher asks the students: “Why did you classify the
three sentences under one category”?
S: They are similar in
pattern
T: Is there any
similarity between sentence A and C?
S : In those sentences
the people directly says it.
T: What about the rest?
S: They are reported by
someone else.
Now, the teacher
explains that sentences are of two types: direct and indirect speech
Questions
The teacher presents some more
questions and asks the students to use the indirect form.
Exhibition
Students write the
answers and presents them in the class.
Reflection
Here the teacher and
the students work collaboratively and discuss about Direct and Indirect speech.
Then, the teacher presents some rules governing change in reporting:
Simple present changes
to Simple past
Present continuous
changes into past continuous
Will/shall changes into
would and should etc.
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The session ends with the teacher giving
an assignment to enable the
students to master the change from direct to indirect speech.
Dr. C. Praveen
Secretary, KUETEF
thank u.
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