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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My apologies for unintended kerfuffle or ruffled feathers. I thought it was understood that "privacy" referred to citing posts off list, especially in papers...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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...
... 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,...
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:...
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...
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'...
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...
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