ROUAULT, Gregory T.    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Commercial Sciences    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2019/05/18
Presentation Theme	Reading Circles: Collaborative Activities for ER
Conference	JALT Pan-SIG Conference
Promoters	Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT)
Conference Type	Domestic
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Konan University, Nishinomiya CUBE Campus
Publisher and common publisher	Gregory Rouault Max Praver
Details	For teachers of integrated skills courses, one challenge is to develop group work and varied activities built around the same content. Jacobs and Small (2003) relate the key principles valued in cooperative learning with trends in language education such as: learner autonomy, collaboration, curricular integration, higher order thinking, and a focus on meaning. Previous graded reader studies have acknowledged the positive interdependence at the heart of cooperative learning when learners responded that they enjoyed the Reading Circle discussions (Furr, n.d.) independent of their role or whether or not the book was interesting (Author, Author, & Author, 2012).