Having problems with free reading? Free reading is a great idea, but to get reading happening, you need texts that are 100% comprehensible, even to students who have never seen the written form of the language before — even if the language is a non-simple script language. Enter the purpose-written text. Purpose-written texts look a […]
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Purpose-Written Texts
Posted by Terry Waltz on October 31st, 2011
Posted in Methods, Reading 
Tags: Cold Character Reading, Materials, Purpose-Written Text 
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Posted by Terry Waltz on October 25th, 2011
Free-reading is great. Everyone wants a classroom library. Everyone wants to have kids sitting quietly, absorbed in authentic materials in the target language. But is it the best use of acquisitional time for a novice-level learner? I say no. Because free reading is less-than-100%-comprehensible immersion. I am thinking of novice-level learners here: first- or possibly […]