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How can classroom teacher engage in teacher research and why should they? This poster session shows that inquiry processes that two teachers used to investigate questions they had about learning and teaching in their academic reading, writing and communication classrooms. The presenters discuss findings and implications from their studies.
Extensive listening improves reading comprehension and communicating skill, bringing positive influence on learning outcome and further language development of the students. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of extensive listening on EFL learners’ reading comprehension through shadow extensive reading. To this end, the researcher selected two intact upper- intermediate classes as experimental groups. As the main tool for Extensive listening was used xreading.com, an online, virtual library with more than 1200 books from 20 ELT publishers such as Macmillan Language House, National Geographic-Cengage Learning, Cambridge University Press, ELI, and Compass Publishing. The experiment run for 8-weeks with pre- and post- one minute word count reading of academic texts, weekly classroom shadow reading of two books of 3000-5000 words for each, and regular retelling of the books just after reading. Also, during the experiment most of the students took part in nationwide 21-day Team reading marathon. Finally, the learners filled the questionnaire and gave interview to make self-assessment for their listening and speaking skill growth. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant positive effect for listening skill. Moreover, there were some improvements in reading and speaking proficiency level, but also in language comprehension, vocabulary, and their further attitude to English learning. The implications are discussed in terms of the efficacy of Extensive Listening through shadow extensive reading in enhancing EFL learners’ language proficiency. Key words: Extensive listening, extensive reading, shadow reading
Student centered instruction promotes student involvement in the learning process. While students have become more active in monitoring their learning, ways to better engage them in the evaluating and assessment processes-namely, peer assessment and self assessment are crucial. How can students contribute to their own assessment?Student-involved assessment helps learners identify the criteria for assessment that has been assumed by teachers as well as the strengths and weaknesses in their own practice. Teachers implement student involved assessment practices in which learners evaluate themselves and others on their performances on classroom tasks, such as peer reviews, presentations, quizzes and homework assignments.
