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Wuri & The Waves: A Metaphor for How Learning Happens
This presentation will share insights into Wuri and the Waves, a story that was commissioned by the Extensive Reading Foundation in 2024 to be used for a reading roadshow in Indonesia. Reflecting on the themes of resilience, loss, identity and change, crafting this narrative required balancing accessible language with complex emotions, demonstrating that graded readers are not just language tools but powerful vehicles for meaning and for the co creation of meaning on the part of the reader. Writing this story was an exploration of how storytelling can carry deep emotional impact. As the story unfolded it became, to a certain extent, a metaphor for how learning happens.
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Michael Lacey Freeman has been working in the field of English Language Teaching for 30 years, both as a teacher and ELT author. He is also a storyteller and has travelled extensively around the world to tell his stories, and to spread the message that words are powerful. He has written material for many course books with publishers like OUP and Pearson and 21 of his graded readers have been published, seven of which have won international awards. In 2017 he was invited to be on the board of directors of the Extensive Reading Foundation and is currently interim chair of the newly formed Extensive Reading Association in Italy (ERA in Italy).