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Hi Glenski, My trick is to change the goal. Rather than saying the goal is to read a book, I ask them how fast they can read a book. Here is what I do: -Roll...
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I agree about getting permission regardless of whether the post is treated or seen in a positive or negative light. I've been asked, and I tried to be sure...
Glen Hill
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Daniel, I understand the value of "tricking" the students into things as you described. I also know you have spent a lot of time and effort on your students...
Glen Hill
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Thanks everyone for your comments - Yes, I'm sure i would like to know if someone planned on quoting me albeit to ask them to fix spelling and grammar mistakes...
Grant Dykes
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Glenski, Now I wish I had not written 'trick'. How about saying I refocus them on another goal? Good question about whether I have ever taught university...
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May I remind everyone that the rules and 'good manners' for this site are determined by the Moderator not by anyone else whether their intentions are good or...
Rob Waring
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Glen, I also teach in L2 but I think the students can understand word frequencies from graphs, and collocations from examples. I have a list of the top ten ...
Mark Brierley
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Daniel, I certainly hope that kids who get English in elementary school are better when they reach university. I'll probably be retired by then, though! And,...
Glen Hill
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HI Akio, I saw this in a reply to Glenski and was wondering where you got this figure for these schools???? Thanks, Richard "80 % of the students of national...
Lemmer Richard
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Hi, Richard, I did lectures about ER at Chiba University and Okayama University several years ago. I was asked by math or physic professors to do the lectures...
Akio FURUKAWA
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Nov 5, 2009
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As a writer of readers I am in favour of e.books - not that I would ever want to read a lot of text online. But for ER, they are perfect. You can do so much...
Jeremy Taylor
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I agree with Jeremy, the problem is distribution and marketing. How does one let people know these books are available and how would they know the quality? To...
Rob Waring
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Oh I'd add 'dealing with editors' is a good thing. They can help maintain standards and uniformity even if they can interfere in the writing process, they can...
Rob Waring
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My apologies for unintended kerfuffle or ruffled feathers. I thought it was understood that "privacy" referred to citing posts off list, especially in papers...
Vanessa Crary Vaile
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Dear All, I am writing a book on Extensive Reading targeted mainly to Japanese teachers of English. In the book I'd like to introduce institutions where ER is...
Atsuko Takase
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Hi all, Well I've been lurking for a while, sorry. But the activity of recent days has prompted me to "delurk". I'll try to make brief comments on some of the...
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This doesn't make any difference to the moderator's rules for conduct among members of the group, but as far as I can tell all of our messages can be seen on...
Mark Brierley
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Hi Akio, Thanks for the quick response. The reason I asked is that I conducted a survey about students' reading habits and preferences and although I have yet...
Lemmer Richard
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Richard (and all), Re: lack of time I always joke about that with students who give me the same reply. Yeah, yeah, I know uni students' lives are busy with...
Glen Hill
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Glenski, Only reporting the facts as presented to me. <grin> Actually I agree with you. It is a matter of (misplaced?) priorities rather than actual free time....
Lemmer Richard
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Hi Richard, My experience teaching in a national university in Japan is similar to Akio's, although I'd start my students at i-1 where he would maybe prefer ...
Mark Brierley
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Dear Glenn and all, In my school, the average total amount of words the students have read in three academic years is about 1 million words. However, a half of...
Akio FURUKAWA
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Akio, Do they actually read for the whole 80 minutes or just 30 minutes of SSR (which is what I thought you wrote earlier)? If it's 30 minutes, then their ...
Glen Hill
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I have also noted that many of my (16-19) students prefer reading onscreen - even with the problems that conventional screens pose. Personally I instinctively...
Kieran Mcgovern
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Nov 9, 2009
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... Yikes! Jaws is a proper noun... It's the name of the shark. My view is that if the word can be glossed within the text or is clear from the context,...
Rob Waring
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If there were 100 people on this list and if each produced one reader or simplified some text or story per year we would have 500 in five years. From:...
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I don't know if this has been brought to the attention of this list yet or not, but this site: http://tarheelreader.org/ allows users to easily create their...
t mccarthy
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Many thanks for this info, Tom. These sites look very promising, particularly the comic-strip one. I'm experimenting at the moment with the 'sliding page'...
Kieran
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Dear Glen, Students have 70 minutes of SSR in one 80 minutes lesson. They have some time for selecting books and girls' talking, so they actuarlly read...
Akio FURUKAWA
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Nov 9, 2009
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Sue Leather has very kindly allowed me to host an edited version of her 'Writing a Really Good Original Reader' on my site. You can find it here: ...
Kieran
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