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I'm interested in Shadowing which is a way of letting the students repeat after the tape or CD while they are listening to it. Please teach me how to instruct this shadowing to the students effectively.

We used to do this in remedial reading. There might be something on it if you look it up in that area of education. The teacher would read and the student would have the same text and shadow the teacher. Gradually, the teacher could let the student go on by themselves until they got stuck and then read again. It was based on the idea that you read the same story to your young children over and over and over every night as they request and eventually they get to know the story by heart and if you leave something out, they can tell you and then eventually "read" the story themselves. So it helps to get a story that the students really love and want to hear again and again. I can't see why it wouldn't work then with a tape. I think it might be best to have a woman's voice for women students and a men's voice for men students though because they are shadowing more than just the words. That is why listening to music is so great, because they hear the same words over and over and over and it is essentially shadowing. Seems much more fun too.

exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol32/no3/p47.htm

exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol35/no1/p46.htm

www.jls.palo-alto.ca.us/staff/ jbabb/public/reciprding.html

It is also called Reciprocal Reading in the education literature.