Panel 10 says:
Incorporate communicative use of reading and writing from early stages of instruction.
There is the word communicative. It might mean something. I’m not sure what they mean though. No one does, really, do we? If you ask a teacher who uses the target language about 30% of the time in their classroom if they use communicative based methods they would say that they do.
Good for them, but it’s a lie. You can’t go back and forth between languages (what I call L1.5) on these kids and expect them to acquire anything – they may learn something, but they won’t acquire anything.
Now, on the reading, I say yes – the kids should read a lot.
Writing? From the early stages of instruction? More fluffy statements than that are not possible in the real world. Nope. Writing is output, and can only be successful when it has been preceded by a rich underbed of years of input in the form of listening and reading. I guess these folks don’t think much of Krashen. Too bad.
2 and 9.