Literacy Teaching and Learning MOOCElaine Panuelos’s Updates
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Embodied Literacy: Connecting Language Learning with Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meaning
A compelling pedagogical practice that situates linguistic meaning within spatial, tactile, and gestural contexts is Total Physical Response (TPR), a language teaching approach developed by James Asher (1977). TPR is grounded in the idea that langua...More
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The Process Writing Approach: Fostering Growth Through Stages of Composition
One influential approach to learning to write that I have encountered and used is the Process Writing Approach, which emphasizes writing as a recursive, developmental process rather than a one-time product. This approach shifts the focus from simply...More
