Podcast: Stop Reading And Start TAVI-ing! Get The Most Out Of Texts In The Classroom

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Adapting readings in the efl classroom

Teachers have used readings and texts in different ways over the last century in TEFL - from translating into their first language to repeating meaningless sentences. Listen for techniques which can help students to guess meaning, relate content to their lives and act as a springboard to get students to have a meaningful conversation.

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Practical techniques for utilizing texts

In this podcast we'll show you how to use texts and reading to help students discover language as well as for a springboard to get your students talking.

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Definitions

TALO: Text as a linguistic object

TAVI: Text as a vehicle for information 

TASP: Text as a springboard for production or Text as a Stimulus for Production. 

Further reading

For more on texts in the language classroom, check out Jeremy Harmer's The Practice of English Language Teaching (below)