Book club integrates reading and speaking. Teacher selects a story and gives one chapter of the story for students to read. Before giving the article, teacher divide student’s role. There are Discussion leader, Story summarizer, Word attacker, Culture collector, and Opinion provider. Teacher can add other roles. Of course, teacher should tell what their role is.
Discussion leader obviouslly lead the discussion. Story summarizer summarizes the story so that other students realize the outline of the story. Word attacker finds the meaning of the difficult words, which means dictionaries should be given to them. Culture collector discovers the cultural difference between the story based on Western culture and Korean context. Opinion provider announce their thinkings or feelings that emerge from the story. Teacher may have to provide discussion topic but all the discussions are conducted by the participants. Of course, other students can express their feelings freely.
After reading the chapter, students discuss together. While discussing, teacher do not interrupt but can help them and students may have to speak in English. But if there level is not enough, teacher can allow them to discuss in Korean.
In the next time, teacher change students’ role and read the next chapter of the whole text. Then, do the same procedure again.
To use this method, teacher has to allocate students’ role carefully. Especially, discussion leader has to lead the entire discussion. So he or she has a leadership.
First, in this collection, teacher gives the shepherd’s story. It is short but selected to practice the method. Then move to other stories. For example, Frog prince consists of 4 chapters. It took 4 times to finish the text. Finally, Robinson Crusoe consists of two parts but it is long. So teacher can divide 4 chapters.
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