Interactive Picture Book Read‐Alouds to the Rescue: Developing Emerging College EFL Learners’ Word Inference Ability

The importance of teacher read‐alouds in language teaching and learning has been known for years, but we know very little about how older English learners with limited English skills can benefit from this practice. The author shares how interactive read‐alouds with picture books can be designed to help emerging college learners of English as a foreign language develop word inference ability and become more independent word learners. The...