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"Fifty-Fifty": A Three-Level Course in Communicative English 
                                                     Roger Barnard
      Tama Art University
(Pearson)
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ABSTRACT
“Fifty-Fifty” is a three-level course in communicative English that focuses on developing listening and speaking ability at the upper-beginning to intermediate levels.  Although appropriate for classes of any size, the course is primarily designed for use in large classes where “student-talking” time is usually very limited.  The course features a wide variety of inventive pair and group activities which are designed to reduce learner anxiety and promote language acquisition via meaningful and entertaining tasks. After a brief introduction to the course as a whole, the co-author will present a typical unit outline and ask the audience to participate in sample listening and speaking activities that will demonstrate the special character that has made the course a favorite with teachers and students around the world.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Roger Barnard is a professor in the Department of General Education at Tama Art University, Tokyo, where he teaches general conversational English and content courses for graphic design and fine art students.  He has an MA in Linguistics (TESOL) from the University of Surrey (UK), and the RSA Diploma in TEFL.  He is co-author (with Warren Wilson) of the Fifty-Fifty series (Prentice-Hall), and also writes textbooks for Oxford University Press.  He has taught in Japan for over twenty years, and is especially interested in content course design and the role of memory in language learning. 
 

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