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Description
In many EFL reading classes, students understand a passage but still struggle to use its language in speech or writing. This workshop addresses that gap by treating oral reading not as a mechanical pronunciation drill, but as a principled step between comprehension and output. The central claim is that learners need opportunities to take the text into themselves: to hear it, say it, pause meaningfully, notice its patterns, and rehearse it before being asked to communicate with it. Shadowing is included as a complementary technique that can strengthen listening, rhythm, and oral fluency when used at an appropriate point in the sequence. After a brief theory-informed introduction, participants will examine the purposes, procedures, and suggested order of five classroom-friendly oral reading techniques: listen and repeat, overlapping reading, buzz reading, cloze oral reading, and read-and-look-up. The session will show how these techniques can support noticing, pronunciation and intonation accuracy, rhythm, fluency, meaningful pausing, comprehension, memory, and readiness for output. Participants will then work with a short reading passage and redesign it into accessible speaking and writing tasks, such as retelling, interviews, role plays, opinion exchanges, presentations, or writing prompts. By the end of the workshop, they will have developed adaptable task sequences that connect text comprehension, internalization mainly through oral reading, and meaningful output.
Biography
Shinichi Yasugi is a professor of English education in Kyoto, Japan. He teaches practical English skills courses at a junior college, teacher education courses for prospective English teachers at a university, and graduate-level courses for both students continuing from undergraduate programs and in-service junior and senior high school English teachers pursuing further professional development. He has extensive experience in secondary and tertiary English education and has worked in curriculum development, teacher training, and professional learning for English teachers. His professional interests include oral reading, shadowing, learner engagement, inclusive English education, AI-supported speaking practice, and classroom techniques that connect text comprehension with speaking and writing. He has also collaborated on the development of a commercially available oral reading application. He has written and edited professional books and articles for English teachers in Japan, focusing on links among classroom practice, teacher-friendly methodology, and pedagogical theory. Through his teaching and writing, he aims to develop practical approaches that are accessible to diverse learners and useful for classroom teachers.
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