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Unleashing the power of motivation: Swire Chinese language conference

You Can Learn Chinese

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The Importance of Reading for Fun

Jared and Dean are at the Swire Chinese language conference in Newcastle UK. Jared says he learned a lot about graded reading, comprehensible input we're very good at preparing kids for tests I don't think we're as good as just taking a step back and getting the enjoyment of learning ChineseReading for fun obviously you need to do other things like fluency developmentYeah there is space for sort of explicit grammar but I really like this balance and the idea of Paul Nation and his four strands. Well that's great it's kind of a global effort really to improve language education. Absolutely and we've got a lot to learn from each other in anglophone settings and not just anglophone

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