Peter Waters and Josephine Kennedy recipients of the 2009 Nikai Award for Innovation in Teaching for designing the i-Read program to promote reading among students.
i-Read uses technology to integrate reading with other skills and contains more than 50 hours of independent online work for pre-intermediate English language students, to help them improve not only their reading skills, but also their writing, listening, vocabulary and spelling. Topics students can read about include sports for charity, cars and status, UAE dreams, health and happiness, and reading the news.
Clarity, an English language teaching software company, are the makers of Author Plus, the platform used to develop i-Read. The company is very happy with the i-Read program. “I love it! The contexts are interesting, the activities are varied and the videos and other media really bring it to life!” said Andrew Stokes, managing director of Clarity Language Consultants Ltd. Mr. Stokes said that i-Read was on a level with material produced by professional publishers and was much better than most programs. i-Read is featured in Clarity’s November edition of “Loud and Clear” online newsletter.
Many students are also happy with the program, and with the learning opportunities it provides. “i-Read is a new thing to me, and it’s a really useful thing. It’s good to practice your language with different way to break the traditional learning. i-Read helps me to get new vocabulary. words and learn about something that I don’t know it. This program improves my skills in the English and let me to know how the language sounds,” said an ADMC student. “It’s been a lot of work, but it’s worth it,” said Josephine and Peter. “It’s great to see the students so interested in reading to learn.”
i-Read uses technology to integrate reading with other skills and contains more than 50 hours of independent online work for pre-intermediate English language students, to help them improve not only their reading skills, but also their writing, listening, vocabulary and spelling. Topics students can read about include sports for charity, cars and status, UAE dreams, health and happiness, and reading the news.
Clarity, an English language teaching software company, are the makers of Author Plus, the platform used to develop i-Read. The company is very happy with the i-Read program. “I love it! The contexts are interesting, the activities are varied and the videos and other media really bring it to life!” said Andrew Stokes, managing director of Clarity Language Consultants Ltd. Mr. Stokes said that i-Read was on a level with material produced by professional publishers and was much better than most programs. i-Read is featured in Clarity’s November edition of “Loud and Clear” online newsletter.
Many students are also happy with the program, and with the learning opportunities it provides. “i-Read is a new thing to me, and it’s a really useful thing. It’s good to practice your language with different way to break the traditional learning. i-Read helps me to get new vocabulary. words and learn about something that I don’t know it. This program improves my skills in the English and let me to know how the language sounds,” said an ADMC student. “It’s been a lot of work, but it’s worth it,” said Josephine and Peter. “It’s great to see the students so interested in reading to learn.”