Using VOA Special English to Improve Advanced English Learners' Productive Use of High Frequency Words
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This article focuses on advanced ESL learners’ acquisition of the spelling, pronunciation, and comprehension of high-frequency words at the productive skill level rather than at the receptive skill level. It discusses the use of the Voice of America (VOA) Special English program to expose learners to different activities requiring productive skills. The article offers examples of how the VOA program exposes learners to comprehensible input through high-frequency words and helps them produce these words both in writing and speaking.
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Yao Nan and Zuo Mingfang
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English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 3
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