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How to motivate for this kind of training.
Motivation is a key factor concerning reading and writing training among employees, because
there may be a shame to admit lack of such competence. Very often we see that when asked
to read or write something, a person with low literacy may:
 make excuses to avoid the task; for example,
- I can’t read this because I forgot my glasses,”
- “I don’t have time to read this now. Can I take it home?”
- “I hurt my hand, so I can’t fi ll out this form.”
 read very slowly
 stare at the page they’re supposed to read, but not move their eyes back and forth
 ask questions about things that are clearly stated in the document
 make a lot of spelling or grammar mistakes in their writing, or fi ll out a form with incorrect
information
 bring a friend or relative with them who helps with reading and writing
In order to defuse the shame and instead motivate one may tell this training is about
improving the tools the workplace use. A good way to do this is to Use text and situations
from workplace
It would be an advantage if the teacher manages to use texts that are relevant to the worker.
This requires some preparation and insight from the teacher. It is therefore important for the
teacher to find out who, when, where and why they selected texts usually read and written, to
know how he or she should work on a text. One way to acquire this knowledge is to analyze
texts and text usage found in the workplace from:
• Which profession the text is read and written
• What functions the text usage fills
• What role employees have when they read or write the text.
Methods and activities for reading and writing
For writing it’s all about training. Do as much practise as possible and give concrete and
directly feedback concerning what to improve and what is good. Then do more practise.
Below you find three different tasks, and it is possible to find material from every workplace.
 Task 1 - writing a form
 Task 2 - writing summary, make a summary based on oral presentation
 Task 3 - general writing, make a complain based on this situation
Concerning reading there are many good activities to practise. Also here it is best to find text
from workplace and use that in training. Here are some examples of good activities to train
reading skills.
 Read text on computer and then listen to text using listening tool on computer. Is it the
same?
 Guiding in how to use tools in your computer to exercise
 Read text and make an oral summary to teacher or fellow student
 Read text load in microphone on your computer and listen to result.