Kent Jones

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Kent Jones is a Tenured Senior Lecturer at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. His research interests include feedback on student writing, learner cognition, and teacher development.


Sessions

Pattern Building: Implementing Fluency Activities

College & University Education
Sun, Nov 22, 12:50-13:50 JST

This workshop will introduce a teaching method informed by skills acquisition theory designed to help students develop speaking fluency in a series of scaffolded steps that lead them from simple question/answer drills to the goal of being able to engage in an unrehearsed conversation for several minutes. The length of the conversation and level of abstraction of topics is relative to students’ initial level.