Monthly Archives: December 2011

Would you like a Communicative Language Workshop at SBL or ETS 2012?

Teachers who apply communicative language to a classrom run up against challenges and questions about ways to handle many details in language teaching. Are their any issues that might be demonstrated, tried out, or receive group advice for applying communicative … Continue reading

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A Focus on Reading for the 2012 Annual SBL and ETS Meetings

What is reading? What is involved when humans ‘read’ a text? What enhances comprehension when reading? What hinders or prevents comprehension? How might any of this affect pedagogy? How do we become better readers of second languages? What questions are … Continue reading

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