[IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading

Tony Anderson tony_anderson at usa.net
Thu Feb 28 15:04:39 EST 2013


Hi,

The Eric site you linked says that it does not have authorization to
make the course available for download. Am I missing something?

Tony


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> On Wed, February 27, 2013 8:09 pm, Steve Thomas wrote:
>> I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
>> feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
>>
>> I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
>> suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
>
> One of the best methods for teaching foreign languages is the
> microwave technique created by Earl Stevick of the US Foreign Service
> Institute, one of the top language schools in the world. It consists
> of short, carefully sequenced lessons that introduce single points of
> grammar, which are then reinforced in dialogs where students are
> encouraged to explore the possible range of variation in using the
> expressions they have just learned. Microwave was adopted by the Peace
> Corps for all of its language materials and courses in something like
> 80 languages. I was taught a little bit of the technique as an English
> teacher with the Peace Corps in South Korea in the 1960s.
>
> There is A Microwave Course in English as a Second Language (For
> Spanish Speakers) available for free download from the US government
> Educational Resources Information Center Web site.
>
> http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED035876&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED035876
>
> A teacher's manual exists, but I have not seen it offered for download.
>
> Obviously, this is not quite what the Haitian teachers want. It would
> require significant work to adapt it to the requirements of speakers
> of standard French or of Krey?l Ayisyen, and to make it usable at
> other than the adult level.
>
> I can assist. I have been working on the similar Microwave Course in
> Spanish (for English speakers), and trying to get a Creative Commons
> license to permit wider use, adaptation, and republishing. We do not
> know who owns the copyright at present, since the original publisher,
> Lingoco, has gone out of business. I could do with some assistance in
> such issues of licensing.
>
>> I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
>> video's suggested by Mike Lee.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
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