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The Illustrated Way

How to Develop Fluency in Speech at the Same Pace as Accuracy in Usage



If we look at this method from the point of view of a false beginner, a learner who has already acquired a basic knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and some conversational fluency, the second concept - accuracy in usage - would emphasize learner's abilities to use socially acceptable American conversational English, including colloquial usage.
At this level, Stimu-Con Usage Games provide students with an "occasion" to make good use of their conversational fluency, knowledge of the linguistic system, and the foreign culture. Language teachers - for the first time - are able to completely track or test their students' interactional exchanges even in large, "multi-level" classes. Teachers can easily identify the source of their students' mistakes: grammar, forms of the language, lack of knowledge about language conventions or the target culture, translation from the Japanese, and so on.

Summary

Conceptual Background

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Conceptual Background

The Methodology

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Pre-communication activities

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Communication activities

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