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Rabbidge, Michael; Lorenzutti, Nico – English Teaching Forum, 2013
In East Asian nations such as Korea--where EFL is increasingly central to education policy--more and more workshops, seminars, and conferences focus on helping teachers incorporate extensive reading (ER) programs into their teaching contexts. There is a wide range of materials available for ER, including graded readers--novels and short stories…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Novels
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Gardner, Sheena; Yaacob, Aizan – Language and Education, 2009
CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. CD-ROMs for shared reading of animated stories and language work were introduced to all Malaysian primary schools in 2003 for the Year 1 English Literacy Hour. We present classroom interaction extracts that show how the same CD-ROMs offer different…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
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Lee, Chung-ping; Shen, Chung-wei; Lee, Doris – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
In Taiwan, lectures are commonly used for younger students to learn their own language, which is traditional Chinese. Passively listening to lectures has led to this group of students making such mistakes as forgetting strokes and word meanings, combining phrases to create incomprehensible blurs of information, and switching radicals with phonetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction