Hello, Thanks everyone who responded to my request for people who could offer their expertise to a high school interested in self access and extensive reading....
Dear Akio I've been meaning to send you this stuff for months (years?). I counted them about 2 years ago! Sorry. I've been a bit (!) busy. It looks as if...
Clive Lovelock
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Feb 4, 2003 9:43 am
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... students ... (where I ... collect in ... level ... movies ... students. ... On the one hand, US animation tends to childish in its language, so what is...
... (in ... as books ... This tends to be rated on how much language is spoken and how it is delivered, rather than vocabulary difficulty. Consider, the Matrix...
... at a program where they train interpreters. Shadowing is pushed output. It may be effective for higher intermediate or advance level studetns, but the...
... code scanners, Nice on Charles! Hmm now =wouldn't= that be nice. The 'barcode scanner' theory of vocabulary acquisition. I suppose this is the theory of...
Rob Waring
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Feb 7, 2003 8:32 am
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... Rob, How about something more like you've got to chew on your words in order to remember and acquire them. I do think shadowing is far better a whole...
I am not sure how familiar people are with the Richmond Readers but I found this link which might help. http://www.santillana.com.co/richmond/readers.htm ...
Thanks for the link. The readers look interesting. Have you used them? How does their quality/consistency compare to other publishers' series? Will they send...
Hi Rory, I like the [Richmond] series. Having written two of them perhaps I am biased but the books, although they have a few comprehension questions at the...
Dear Charles Sorry I haven't had time to respond to your message before, but it really grabbed my attention. This idea reminds me of an ELT approach that was...
Clive Lovelock
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Feb 14, 2003 4:25 am
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Thanks for all that Clive, ... The method Clive refers to is the Saint-Cloud method. There is an account of it in Stevick's book. There is a bit about it here ...
Rob Waring
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Feb 14, 2003 6:24 am
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Rob I'm not sure if it is the St Cloud Method. It was a long time ago, and my memory's rusty, but I have the impression that the St Cloud Method was the audio...
Clive Lovelock
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Feb 14, 2003 7:23 am
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Andy Barfield
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Feb 17, 2003 6:49 am
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Yes, Andy. That's where much of the theory came from, but I was thinking of the motivational origins, which were a dissatisfaction with the audio-visual...
Clive Lovelock
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Feb 17, 2003 7:34 am
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I know Family Circus isn't the hippest cartoon out there but there is one that just went on the Net today. It shows a boy sitting with a book. He is saying,...
Dear Clive, Andy and Rob Thanks for that background. The view of verbal language acquisition as necessarily dependent on visual input from the caretaker's face...
... but there is ... sitting with a ... on it ... This is the point that Carver has repeatedly made in reading research. As soon as you say, you're going to...
Charles I think it says: 1. Some human beings are trustworthy most of the time and some aren't. 2. It's OK to trust everybody, as long as nothing much is...
Clive Lovelock
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Feb 21, 2003 6:18 am
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While no doubt true in some cases, I feel compelled to add that, especially for more mature learners, it depends on the kind of 'test' and how much the ...
Clive, Personally, I am interested in student learning, and not AT ALL in assessment (aside from formal test evaluation). People cheat, they get corrupt, some...
I just found this on my pce. Forgive me if I posted it before and forgot. Also, I can't tell you whether I scooped it up somewhere or wrote it up as some sort...
I think 'low stakes' assessment using multiple sources of information provides vital feedback to students so that they learn to learn better. However, it takes...
... I'm with Charles and Rube on this. I give a test each semester, but I tell them repeatedly that it won't count on their grades, that it is only for their...
... Interesting. Thanx for this. There is more at http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docID=507188 -- Best regards Rob Waring waring@......
Rob Waring
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Feb 23, 2003 11:52 pm
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Ý ... Ý I see what you are saying. But I just wanted to share something I talk to my students about (background -- they have to read min. 500 pages per term....
Hi I was wondering if anyone knows about a website that anyone can record their impressions of a graded reader. I know of some people doing this internally,...
Rob Waring
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Feb 24, 2003 1:26 am
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I am posting this because many of the people on this list are based in Japan. You may have seen in the newspapers the story about Shonen Jump (Japan's most...
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