Teaching Fluency using the Verbal Classrooms Method
José Domingo Cruz has given numerous presentations and keynotes for various conferences and educational events and works on several English study projects, including his main venture, “GOLDFish365”. Cruz is the author of, “Teaching with ZOOM 2”. He helped create the protocols for and led the team of volunteer Room Hosts (The Fire Station) that guided the presentations during the PANSig and JALT National conferences of 2020. Cruz is a leading member of Online Teaching Japan, where he hosts the broadcasts of “OTJtv”. Cruz is from Canada, and is a veteran university instructor and Japan resident, specializing in fluency instruction, authentic materials creation, and online education.
For more information please see his Authentic Listening/fluency practice website, GOLDFish365 http://goldfish365.com/
We were very lucky and grateful to have the opportunity to listen to José’s keynote speech at SDC 2021. In his keynote he outlined his theory and techniques for enabling students to be able to speak English faster and say more. The techniques he outlined included; Answer-Question pattern (AQp), One Idea One Breath (OIOB) and more. He also demonstrated exactly how to do these techniques and he spoke about the best way to implement them in a class room setting. If you would like to watch it again, a recording of the keynote speech is below. This recording is from José’s YouTube channel so make sure you follow him if you want to see more of his work!