Building Fluency through the Repeated Reading Method

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3

This article discusses the success of Repeated Reading (RR) within EFL classrooms, illustrating three techniques of RR that can be used to develop students’ fluency, comprehension skills, and reading self-esteem. After providing a background on the RR method, the author explains the techniques step by step and suggests activities. The techniques include classic oral repeated reading (ORR), Paired repeated reading (PRR), and Reader’s Theater (RT).

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Individual Work; Pairwork and Groupwork
Author:
Joshua Cohen

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3

English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3

This issue features gardening. The academic articles are about content-based instruction, approaches to language learning technologies, building fluency through repeated reading, and an "Eyes on English" campaign.