Impressive gains on the TOEIC after one year of comprehensible input, with no output or grammar study
Posted: February 26, 2012 Filed under: Extensive Listening, Extensive Reading, Free Voluntary Reading, Second Language Acquisition | Tags: extensive listening, extensive reading, free voluntary reading, second language acquisition Leave a comment »by Beniko Mason
Shitennoji University
“Mr. Tanaka” is an adult who attended a class based on
story listening and carried out a personal reading program over
one year with the author’s guidance. At no time did he “study”
English, and at no time did he attempt to speak or write English.
He gained 180 points on the TOEIC test in one year, the
equivalent of about 63 points on the TOEFL, far more efficient
than students in traditional EFL and ESL programs.
from http://www.benikomason.net/
Amazing! Read it here
Pište-Povídky.cz – The Best Czech Language Learning Resource
Posted: February 4, 2012 Filed under: Extensive Listening, Extensive Reading, Free Voluntary Reading, Intensive Reading, Resources, Second Language Acquisition | Tags: extensive listening, extensive reading, intensive reading, resources Leave a comment »
Pište Povídky is one hell of a website for the learners of the beautiful Czech language. I’m particularly interested in the Povídky (short stories) category. It offers thousands of short stories of various length, from 100 words “Drabble” through less-than-1000-words flash fiction to longer, up to 5000 words short stories. There are fiction and non-fiction categories but I prefer fiction simply because it is the closest to the conversational speech and real life situations, it contains dialogs and a lot of everyday vocabulary unlike non-fiction. It may look strange to the native Czech speakers at that site but the comments that come after most of the stories there are helping me big time in my study, they are so genuine, easy to understand (not all of them), and they even present an opportunity for interaction for the more advanced learners.
A big THANKS to the author of that cool site!
Links:
.ostatní (3117)
Detektivní (328)
Dobrodružné (493)
Drabble (1874) Co je to drabble?
Hororové (700)
Krvavé (345)
Pohádkové (884)
Sci-Fi, fantasy (3967)
Smutné (1721)
Tajemné, záhadné (1435)
Válečné (282)
Vtipné (1169)
Zamilované (1448)
Ze života (4468)
