Reading strategies
Fostering a love for reading in the languages classroom
Two-part online workshop focusing on a variety of reading strategies
How is the workshop structured?
Availability:
- The next workshop will take place in May 2025.
- Places are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis.
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Formate and Dates:
- The online reading strategies workshop is split into two x two hour sessions held over two afternoons, with three weeks in between to allow participants to practice and reflect.
Time:
- The two part workshop on developing avid readers in the world languages classroom will take place from 16:30-18:30 Central European Time (Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam)
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Hello!
i’m Dr. Liam Printer
Dr. Liam Printer is a published author and has been a teacher of English, French & Spanish in a variety of settings for over 16 years. He currently teaches Spanish at The International School of Lausanne in Switzerland where he is also the ‘Leader of Pedagogical Innovation’, focusing on bringing research into classroom practice. Liam has been teaching with a CI-based approach for over 9 years and has been invited to present on CI techniques at the Agen CI Conference in France as well as a number of CI conferences in the US.
He has been invited as the Keynote speaker at a number of International Language Learning conferences and he also lectures on the Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course with the University of Durham and the International School of Geneva. He completed his Doctorate on ‘the motivational pull of teaching languages through storytelling with CI’ at the University of Bath. Liam now hosts The Motivated Classroom podcast which has had over 400,000 downloads.
What will we learn during the workshop?
- The workshop revolves around low-prep, classroom reading strategies designed to provide rich, compelling, comprehensible inputs (CI) that you can implement right away.
- We will go through some of my favourite reading activities stemming from research based evidence around building intrinsic motivation using student autonomy and competence.
- For parts of the workshop you will be ‘students’ in my class, engaged in a variety of different reading activities aimed at helping you to acquire a language naturally through the eyes of a learner.
- At the end of the workshop, participants will have the tools and resources to try out the following techniques in their classrooms:
- Read, write and discuss
- Ping-pong reading
- Reading diaries
- Class novels
- Close reading activities
- Classroom jobs and phrases to embed a love of reading
- Retrieval practice mini whiteboard reading activities
Why is developing a love for reading so important?
- After over 40 years of research, it is widely accepted by language acquisition scholars that humans ‘acquire’ languages implicitly and naturally through receiving lots of rich, interesting and comprehensible inputs (CI) via listening and reading.
- Teaching with a CI based approach involves helping learners to acquire language naturally through listening and reading. It focuses primarily on establishing meaning rather than on grammatical accuracy and form.
- While teachers are becoming more skilled at providing interesting inputs through listening, the critical reading stage is often only briefly touched upon.
- Developing a love for independent reading in the target language has been repeatedly shown in research studies to have a lasting and crucial impact on language acquisition.
- By using a variety of reading activities in the languages classroom, students are not only developing vocabulary, improving spelling and accuracy, but are also raising their own perceptions of self-competence in the language which is central to developing their intrinsic motivation for the subject.
- CI based approaches to reading have been shown in research to be highly motivating and engaging, resulting in higher retention and uptake of languages.
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What is included in the course fee?
Included in the 150.00 CHF course fee:
- Two x two hour online, interactive, workshops
- Pre-course questionnaire analysis
- Post-course e-mail support
- Three Q&A videos within 24 hours of each session
- All presentations, handouts and resources will be provided digitally
- A Motivated Classroom post-course certificate of attendance entitled ”Fostering a love for reading in the language classroom”
10% of every booking fee goes directly towards two projects that are close to my heart:
- The Rainforest Trust environmental protection project to help save our planet from destruction.
- Providing sporting and integration opportunities to refugees with the EVAM refugee welcome centres in Switzerland.
Sign-up here:
- Reduced fees are available to:
- Patrons of The Motivated Classroom podcast
- Trainee teachers currently enrolled on a teaching training programme.
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Group bookings / Purchase orders:
- If you require a purchase order for your school or a pro-forma invoice, please contact info@dynamiclanguagelearning.com with the details required.
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