Evidence-based oral language and written experience

 

Teaching is a matter of approach as well as learning. In this post, I'm going to make a refection on how comprehension is facilitated by evidence-based oral and written experiences. As American linguists used to say "language is for use, not for storage". As a tool, learners have to be able to use it, to touch it, and to feel it as well.

Evidence-based practices refer to practices that are been shown to be effective based on actual evidence. There are quiet few from spaced repetition to intrinsic and extrinsic reward. These evidences consider all the types of learners. In language development both oral and written form, it looks to be a mater of  processing information. That process is facilitated by strategies called evidence-based practices. For example, a learner that teaches another learner a concept, that means he has a mastery of the concept as experience showed that students who tutor increase their knowledge in that area in the sense he can figure out his weaknesses, try to solve them, and get to tutor like mind mapping or reading aloud.

Writing activities are also very important as it enables the students to process information and write them down on paper. For example I have an activity called "words bank" which consists to have students write words that come to their mind and later use them in sentences. With that, we can find out students proceed to a fine selection of words, according to the message they want to convey with their sentences. I addition, when dropping their words and reading them, we can also find out a kind of mastery and confidence using these words due to the fact they are used to them. Likewise the same word written differently by classmates, a given student can start wondering about the word too, as it is differently written on his paper. All these strategies aim at getting the student develop their oral language and written experience.   

Evidence-based practices are ways to learn and to comprehend information, like teaching should adopt these strategies to increase learning outcomes. 

References: 

  1. Education, T. i. (Director). (14 July 2019). Study Skills & Evidence-Based Learning Strategies [Film]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7viLjsHruY
  2. Duffy, J. (n.d.). What Are Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching? Mussila. Retrieved October 4, 2023, from https://mussila.com/what-are-evidence-based-practices-in-teaching/ 


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