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Charles Carpenter Fries (November 29, 1887 – December 8, 1967) was an American linguist and language teacher. Fries is considered the creator of the Aural-Oral method [1] (also erroneously called the Audio-Lingual method [2]). He believed, along with Robert Lado, that language teaching and learning should be approached in a scientific way. [3]
Each skill (listening, speaking, reading, writing) is treated and taught separately. The skills of writing and reading are not neglected, but the focus throughout remains on listening and speaking. Dialogue is the main feature of the audio-lingual syllabus. Dialogues are the chief means of presenting language items.
Multimodal pedagogy is an approach to the teaching of writing that implements different modes of communication. [1] [2] Multimodality refers to the use of visual, aural, linguistic, spatial, and gestural modes in differing pieces of media, each necessary to properly convey the information it presents. [3] [4]
Adult literacy classeshelp studentspractice reading, writing and speaking. This includes book clubs, English conversation classes and grammar and pronunciation classes. Classes meet in the library ...
He was an essential contributor to research on the nature of the reading process together with researchers such as George Armitage Miller, Kenneth S. Goodman, Paul A. Kolers, Jane W. Torrey, Jane Mackworth, Richard Venezky, Robert Calfee, and Julian Hochberg. [4] Smith and Goodman are founders of whole language approach for reading instruction. [5]
62. "Universals in Reading: A Transactional Socio-Psychoinguistic Model of Reading, Writing and Texts," A summary by Patrick Gallo, Singapore: Report of the Regional Seminar on Reading and Writing Research: Implications for Language Education, 1994, p. 6. 63.
Improves fluency of speech – fluency of speech results in easier writing, it tends to improve expression, expression in writing, and it is a quick way of learning and expanding vocabulary; Aids reading – reading becomes easier and more pleasant, and it also promotes a habit of critical studying; Improves the development of language sense
Calls for an evidence-based return to the basics are, to some extent, a backlash against the "whole language" approach to reading instruction that become become prominent during the 1980s and 1990s.