Younger learners Younger Learners Workshop
Workshop for Kids in Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening
This workshop aims to demonstrate particular ways children can learn English through extensive reading and listening. As Dr. David Hill mentioned in the first ERWC, language cannot be effectively learned without going through ER and EL. The learning process can be expedited by using a variety of techniques in both ER and EL. These techniques are especially important for young beginner learners with shorter attention spans. This workshop shows how making story-maps, and, collaterally, illustrating flashcards, playing word games and solving word puzzles, with accompanying reading-aloud presentations, make the learning process easier for the learners because it involves the use of senses, physical actions, and play. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to create story-maps with Dr. Park, and flash cards and related items with Dr. Takase, and practice how to use them effectively.
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Jeong-Suk PARK is a teacher, researcher of Extensive Reading in S. Korea. She runs PERA, an English private reading academy in Jinju, S. Korea, specializing in Extensive reading and listening. She has taught young learners of English for many years as well as university students and English teachers at teacher training programs. She was an international juror for the Language Learner Literature Awards, and currently she is a board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation. Her doctoral dissertation is 'The Effects of Repeated Storybook Reading on the Language Develpment of Young EFL Learners.
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Atsuko Takase is a teacher at Iwano Private English School in Japan. She received an Ed.D. in TESOL. Her research interests include extensive reading /listening (ER/EL), motivation to ER/EL, and language acquisition through ER/EL. After having practiced ER/EL at high schools and universities for 30 years, she is now practicing ER/EL on students at various age groups such as children (aged 9 to 11), junior and senior high school students, and adults.