ELT4Mafia just put on Facebook about the research side of our Africa project.
With such a glowing report from Harvard I’m thinking it will make it much easier for your schools to accept Genki English (and Genki Phonics!)
Our pre and post course testing data has been put through rigourous statistical analysis, and Emily from Harvard Graduate School of Education writes “Based on a variety of analyses, it has been confirmed that the ELT4Mafia program had a significant, positive and robust impact on students’ learning outcomes“.
Thank-you Emily for your very detailed feed-back and well done everyone that taught in the 2012 program.
The full ELT report (2012) will be out shortly.
Do you think it will help?
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Good one! Unfortunately, a lot of research gets trapped in the jargon filled and indigestible world of academia and does not make it out into the practical world where it is needed. Also,there is often resistance to new ideas and discoveries from the education establishment, and individuals who are unwilling to change their habits and beliefs.
This is hopefully why this is such great news, we get all the practical help of Genki English but we can say it’s backed up by research from Harvard – hopefully the best of both worlds!
Totally agree with you Richard! And the fact that’s on facebook makes it more visible.
In addition, anyone who is using GENKI ENGLISH can testify that it really works!!!
Nena
Genki English is wonderful, that’s why my students keep saying they love the English classes… And I became a much more happier teacher with so many smiling kids in classes. Thank you GENKI ENGLISH!
Richard, has this report come out online?
Anne’s Report we have here: http://genkienglish.net/MafiaTEEReportGenkiEnglish.pdf
And Emily’s research paper I think you’d need access to Harvard’s academic library to get access to – although there might be other ways if you have access to libraries from other unis?