Welcome to the Story-Listening & GSSR Blog!
We are pleased to provide the presentation slides from the virtual presentation, Optimizing Teaching and Language Acquisition. This is the keynote presentation that Beniko Mason delivered at the National Taipei University, Sanxia Campus last month
You can download the presentation here....
1) What is compelling?
It is the theme, topic, or problems that the characters have in the story. The story takes the students in suspense until the end, and the pleasant experience in understanding the story in another language, makes them look forward to hearing another story in the next...
Story-Listening (SL) teachers speak at a slower rate for the beginning level students, providing them with more time to process the input. Stories told to beginners are told at a slow speed compared to the speech rates of the regular audio tapes or speeches.
Beginners, those who are less...
