Last week I took a look at the first two High Leverage Teaching Practices from Glisan and Donato’s new book, Enacting the Work of Language Instruction. They were “Facilitating Target Language Comprehension” and “Building a Classroom Discourse Community”.
This week I’m taking a look another HLTP: “Guiding Learners to Interpret and Discuss Authentic Texts”. This one is so large and controversial that it needs a discussion all its own.
Background Considerations
The role of authentic texts is controversial in second language acquisition circles.
The desire to have students be able to read authentic texts in the target language is Continue reading “Guiding Learners to Interpret and Discuss Authentic Texts – Part 1”