Episode 10: EAP and active reading for active learning

In this episode, Laura reflects upon and explains some teaching activities she has recently used with EAP students in an effort to increase learner understanding of reading texts. Laura introduces her newly created schemata of EGGS (establish the topic and definition, gather understanding, generate new ideas and opinions, and share the ideas) that she utilizes in her classrooms to guide students through the learning process. EGGS incorporates the 6 levels of learning as described in Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Learning. 

Laura also reflects on the significance of learning to understand information that has been structured according to the more Anglo-Saxon style of academic writing and how tightly interconnected the main ideas are to both the topic and each other. Laura likens this to a spiderweb, which she finds students can understand as they attempt to decode the written texts of higher-level writers than themselves. 

Websites where you can find more information on the topics to which Laura refers.

https://fortelabs.com/

https://bloomstaxonomy.net/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/constructivism.html

The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, first published 1645