2016 Tung Hua Day Topic2

2016 Tung Hua Day 精采講座摘要

Topic 2： Intensive or extensive? International or local? Why not all four?

I think we would all agree with the old adage, "Variety is the spice of life." It’s true in our lives, at the office, and as educators we try to make it true in our classrooms. We mix skills-building exercises with interactive activities, fluency-focused activities with accuracy-focused ones, individual practice with pair or group work, and so on. In the reading classroom this may be more challenging to accomplish, yet if we want to keep our students motivated and engaged, it is essential that we do so here as well. This presentation will focus on ways of creating a more dynamic and interactive environment in the reading classroom, one that keeps students thinking and reflecting critically about the world around them.

About the presenter: Michael McCollister

Michael McCollister has been a full-time faculty member at Feng Chia University for close to twenty years. He previously served as head of the Foreign Language Division of the Foreign Language Center for three years and another four as director of the center. He is the author of the intermediate level of the recently published series On the job: English for Life and Work and is the editor of A Community of Readers: Interviews with Extensive Reading Success in Scholars and Practitioners (Kaun Tang International, 2013). He has also published two test banks of graded reader quizzes.