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for SCHOOOLS Language Coaching Games Linus Coach-a-Coach Express
SPAQLE TO SPiK Coaching Details
40 Teachers earmarked as Facilitator Coaches
30 EXPECTED TO QUALIFY
300 MORE TEACHERS EXPECTED TO BE COACHED FROM JANUARY TO JUNE
200 EXPECTED TO QUALIFY AS SPiK COACHES BY JUNE
2000 STUDENTS EXPECTED TO BE COACHED BY NOVEMBER
if the headmaster, teachers, parents, coaches and students are game..........and hopefully by then we would be able to put up for good use ........................................................
a TERRABACA Extensive Reading Assistance Study PORTAL
Introducing an upcoming Portal designed as an interactive online arena for language learners to put into practice results of their participation in the CERAP English Coaching Games . The portal is called TERRABACA Extensive Reading Assistance Study PORTAL, and is under construction with our content partners.
Applying the coaching method outlined earlier each reading group having completed the assigned reading content will now choose the best from amongst them to compete in an online language games expressing various skills in Bahasa Melayu and English based on the collection of stories published by Utusan Publications & Distributors, Himpunan 366 Cerita Rakyat Malaysia and 366 A Collection of Malaysian Folk Tales.
Teras or TERRABACA Extensive Reading Assistance Study PORTAL aims to be the platform for schools to coach and produce participants in a contest to search for:
+ Best Reader/Best Storyteller
In this contest students run the CERAP practice of their choice stories from the 366 short stories in the assigned book. Group members endorsed by their peers can now record their reading and upload the audio file to the Portal. The recording is then listened to and in turn graded by other students from schools participating in the contest. The grades are then tabulated to show ranking and accessible to all.
Students can undertake repeated recording to repair and improve their reading skills within the allotted time, thus establishing the linguistic rule of Frequency For Fluency.
+Best Handwriting
The best handwriting slot is to provide opportunity for the lesser qualified reader to vie for best handwriting. Good handwriting and the effort to improve reflect the principle of the method- the grading for effort. Students copy their story of choice and go through similar process of ‘peer endorsement’, get the work scanned and the uploaded to the portal in pdf mode, to be graded accordingly.
This encourages slow learners not to quit and be discouraged from participation. Akin to putting education for all into place, since most schools only concentrate on the bright ones, and tolerate the underachievers. Our method is ‘what underachievers? No such concept, the student is the syllabus!
+ Best Jawi Transliterator/Khat
Himpunan 366 Cerita Rakyat Malaysia being romanised allows opportunity to draw out the artist in the student, a Khat contest preferably to showcase Mushaf Malaysia fonts. It is hoped that this would lead to a student compiled ebook of Himpunan 366 Cerita Rakyat Malaysia in Jawi as outcome of our TEBAS programme.
*+Best Speller
Best Speller is database collection of marks achieved at school level CERAP Spelling Contest using list of words within and beyond the suggested corpus of "Buku Panduan Senarai Perkataan KBSR" for both Bahasa Melayu and English. The grades will decide the short listing of candidates for the state-level TERRABACA Coach-a-Coach Spelling Games.
Spelling forms main activity for post-reading practice, and strange enough is a favourite once students given target of 3000 word corpus, and each session marked, corrected and recorded. The loser catching up speeds the thrill!
+Best Coach
The best coach is not just expected to be a good reader but a diligent one, to be adjudged based on the number of students so coached by him or her, and by the level of competence achieved through his peer coaching effort. The best coach is also the one not voted out by the group members, and is well-liked and of good temperament
*Best Achiever
Since all participants in the contest are pre-graded to measure achievement level after x hours of drill and practice, the low achievers also compete on who moves up the levels fastest. This is to sustain the interest of the other half’ or ‘special pupils in need’ to continue with the reading practice. They also pose a challenge to coaches assigned, and are generally more appreciative of the effort.
This bricks and mortar approach based on actual and repeated reading and writing practice culminating to multimedia presentation is a necessary gateway before students could be expected to comprehend the multitude of materials available online, especially for the diligent. Like coaches on the express train, each pulling along the other, the expression of both reading and writing skills in a wider competitive environment is the best incentive for students to remain at the coaching station and thus ensures sustainability of the reading habit.
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