The goal of reading and writing instruction in elementary school should be to give children basic English literary skills. The first thing that Sae should do is establish a knowledge foundation for here paper:
Theoretical Foundation
- What are the basic literary skills?
- Sae reads various books and papers on the topic and synthesizes the information
- How have people tried to teach basic literary skills in EFL contexts?
- Read methodology books, academic papers, and various real-life examples.
Proposal for Investigation
- Sae proposes basic literacy skills for the Japanese EFL context.
- Sae proposes a teaching method she wants to try.
- Sae proposes how she can evaluate this method.