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[LongShiKong]

Although some of the animal stories and chants miss their mark (appear forced), overall, it's the best coursebook I've seen for young learners. I'd previously purchased the Twist & Shout series written for an older audience but never used it. It progresses too rapidly, introducing too much lexis and grammatical structures too soon. From what I understand, VYLs pick up new language at the same rate that adults or older learners do, if not faster. But is there reason to assume an older learner without fluency but able to read and comprehend a coursebook will develop will develop their fluency that much faster or without as much recycling? Perhaps coursebook authors and publishers think the teachers of such older learners are that much better prepared with their own skills and resources to recycle the language. Or perhaps the approach is meant to sell such coursebooks to students who would otherwise think the course progresses much to slowly for them given that they already 'know' the language.

Whatever the case, it seems part of the job description to persuade older learners who lack basic fluency or accuracy, it's worth the risk of boring them with a series written for a younger age range or a lower level that until they're reasonably fluent and accurate with the higher frequency language at that level, it doesn't make much sense to bypass it, if fluency is the ultimate goal.

So, if anyone is using the series,