Tracy D. Terrell's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
During our own initiation as language teachers (Oller, at first in Spanish and French, and later ESL; Richard-Amato, in ESL), we heard plenty about "the subtle difficulties of language instruction," but we heard considerably less about success in surmounting those difficulties. Coursebooks and especially anthologies tended to deal primarily with pr...
The theory and methods of the natural approach to language acquisition in the classroom are described. The natural approach is based on the theory that language acquisition occurs only when students receive comprehensible input. The emphasis is on reading and listening comprehension for beginning students. The seven chapters cover (1) language teac...
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... First of all, even though an abundance of studies investigates the feelings and attitudes of language learners during drama activities in the classroom, they mostly base their inferences and results on researcher observations. Some experimental studies reveal that drama decreases anxiety levels of students and makes them feel more confident and motivated (Stern, 1983;Sağlamel & Kayaoğlu, 2013;Schewe & Scott, 2003;Stern, 1983;Janudom & Wasanasomsithi, 2009). In the study conducted by Akey in 2006, it was found that when students feel confident and believe that they will succeed, and when teachers use activities based on peer-interactions in the lessons, student's successes increase. ...
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... This paper focuses on extensive reading (ER), which is reading widely for pleasure specifically in the English language. This contributes significantly to overall language competence and proficiency; performance in all language skills, vocabulary growth and has a positive impact on grammar learning; it promotes reading fluency and speed; it is selfdirected as learners choose what they read (Krashen &Terrell, 1983;Watkins, 2017). Globally it is understood that students should read large amounts of high interest material to gain vocabulary, spelling, reading ability and overall linguistic competence (Singkum & Chinwonno, ...
