Topics: Science behind language learning, methods of language teaching, trends in language teaching e.g. extensive processing instruction, cognitive science, ideas for activities
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Language Pedagogy @sh.itjust.works Juju @sh.itjust.works What is Extensive Processing Instruction?
What is EPI?
Extensive Processing Instruction, or EPI, was created by Gianfranco Conti. It focuses on the teaching of chunks of language rather than singular words and isolated grammar teaching, with a heavy emphasis on serving real life communication.
The components of EPI are: Chunking, comprehensible input, input flooding (teachers provide students with opportunities to hear and use the target linguistic patterns over and over again), controlled input (highly structured input at the early stages of learning target linguistic patterns), thorough processing, pushed output (output that forces students to use target chunks they have just practised through listening/reading), recycling, automaticity
Read in more detail: https://gianfrancoconti.com/2018/12/05/how-i-teach-lexicogrammar-part-2-the-8-tenets-of-extensive-processing-instruction-in-the-novice-to-intermediate-classroom/
EPI teaching is arranged around a sequence called MARS EARS