interactive processing

a theory of reading comprehension that sees reading as involving both the accurate and sequential understanding of text based on identification of the meanings of words and sentences in the text (i.e. BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING) as well as the experiences, background information, and predictions that the reader brings to the text (e.i. TOP-DOWN PROCESSING) Both kinds of processing are involved and they modify and act on each other.

Jack C. Richards, Richard Schmidt., Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics, p.265

top-down processing

in PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, and INFORMATION PROCESSING, a contrast is made between two different ways in which humans analyze and process language as party of comprehension and learning. One way, known as top-down processing, makes use of "higher level", nonsensory information to predict or interpret "lower level" information that is present in the data. The other way, bottom-up processing, makes use of the information present in the input to achieve higher level meaning. The meanings of these terms varies depending on the unit of analysis. For example, in word recognition, the higher level information is knowledge of permissible words as well as actual words of a language, while the lower level information is the actual phonetic input (or orthographic input in the case of written word recognition). In sentence comprehension or the interpretation of an UTTERANCE, the lower level information is words, while the higher level information includes knowledge of GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS, and PRAGMATICS. As applied to the full understanding of a novel, lower level information consists of words and sentences, while higher level information includes the reader's previously existing knowledge of the world, including cultural and moral values, SCRIPTs, SCHEMAs, and literary GENREs.

Jack C. Richards, Richard Schmidt., Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics, p.567

teacher-wannabe?

To be an English teacher is never easy for non-native speaker, especially me who is not good at English. So I still cannot sure wheter teaching is my true calling. It may or may not.
Anyway, If I should be a teacher, I would try to be a good model to my students.
I really want to show the other people that it's possible to have near-native English competence even in Korea.

English Text?

I have always thought that there are a lot of letters everywhere so I would say the polluted and overflowing characters around me may contaminate my brain. Now I got suprised as I am to find what kind of English text I usually see/read.

▶ textbook; who protects! I am junior. lol
▶ commercial sign; looks like hell.
▶ interface(menu) phrase of cell phone;
...

of course, there are much more things than them.

What matters is not whether it's written in Korean or English. However, I should think about it seriously. Can reading/seeing a text be called helpful way of learning language?

comprehension questions 3/11

Q: What makes you English reading difficult?

In my case, grammatical structure would be a problem. I become uncomfortable and cannot read much faster than usual reading speed, when I encounter some sentences which have unfamiliar and complicated structure.

and more, "vocabulary" and "social background"

Q: Explain each term of "Reading Process" - because of some reasons, I just explained these terms with short words.

Schema; (we skipped this term cause we all already knew it)

Shared assumption; b/g knowledge, attitudes, social b/g, language, etc...

Presupposition; unstated things

Prediction; assumption before reading

qualifications to be an English teacher in Korea

though professor just asked us five or more items, I added one more condition; "Korea".
I've thought that ESL or EFL condition should be considered with more concern....
What is more, among these particular conditions, Korea has unusual... education context.

1. passion
2. understanding of this particular situation(i.e., everyone in Korea seems to be mad at English lol)
3. of course, English skills
4. sense of morality
5.

links for the paper of Educational Psychology

thesis database(about Educational psychology or more)

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/

http://www-mi3.csa.com/ids70/quick_search.php?SID=5b218410d8564ef6d1dc23759f862994

http://ejournals.ebsco.com/home.asp

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

http://kiss.kstudy.com/