All levels Teachers, Curricula and Classrooms Presentation
Nation's Four Strands approach to support ER and EL implementation
The "Four Strands" approach maintains that we need to provide our students with more time to practice through meaning-focused input (Reading & Listening) and output (Speaking and Writing) as well as "fluency training" by having them read, write, speak and hear material that they already understand. It states that 75% of student learning should be devoted to practice with only 25% of the time spent on frontal teaching or studying grammar or vocabulary. This session will discuss what this means in practical terms bringing recent research to support Nation’s contention.
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Thomas Robb, Ph.D., University of Hawaii, is Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Sangyo University. He is a long-time user of CALL and the Internet and has created a number of websites and applications for Extensive Reading, student projects, interactive learning, and professional exchange. He is Chair of the Extensive Reading Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of TESL-EJ;org. He has recently been working on the production of simplified texts for online reading.