YAGI, Keita    Lecturer    English for Liberal Arts Program, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
Date	2016/07/03
Presentation Theme	The foundation of CLIL: Practical tips based on MERRIER approach for TETE
Conference	JACET Kanto 10th Anniversary Convention
Promoters	JACET Kanto
Conference Type	Local
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Tokyo
Details	Since Teaching English through English (TETE) is a foundation of CLIL and other English classes in secondary English education, many in-service teacher training workshops and seminars offer a session to improve their English skills and discuss how to conduct TETE. In such a session, it may be useful to introduce a list of classroom English and encourage the teachers to use the phrases, but its effect may be temporal. This presentation will report on an attempt to provide more practical tips for TETE based on MERRIER Approach suggested by Watanabe (1995) in a two-day in-service teacher development summer seminar held at a bilingual university in Tokyo. MERRIER stands for Miming (or Models), Examples, Redundancy, Repetition, Interaction, Expansion, and Rewarding and it is based on Krashen’s input hypothesis (Watanabe, 1995). Fourteen high school teachers who had a wide range of teaching experiences participated in the seminar in 2015 and the first session aimed at introducing the MERRIER Approach theoretically and practically. After the participants understood the basic concept of the MERRIER approach, they experienced two activities which incorporate the ideas of M (Miming) and R (Redundancy). The activities functioned not only as a practical application of MERRIER approach but also as an opportunity to raise their awareness of how they could teach English through English effectively. The presenter will explain these activities and suggest other possible activities related to E (Examples), R (Repetition), I (Interaction), E (Expansion), and R (Rewarding). The participants’ informal feedback will also be shared.