Dear David Tracy's query and your response reminded mean that I've been meaning to ask you something for some time now, but only seemed to remember when I was...
Clive Lovelock
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Mar 1, 2004 9:23 am
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Dear Clive I found that Scholastic books written for the 9-12 age group of NS worked quite well for the Hong Kong junior secondary children from Level B up. I...
David R. Hill
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Mar 1, 2004 10:45 am
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Hello everyone, This is my first posting on the board; however, I have been reading without contributing to it off and on for some time. I am interested in...
I am an educator at a Japanese unviersity. Thomas Robb is too. As is the list's moderator, as you know. I don't know of any surveys but the SSS group would...
Tina, I was thinking that the publishers of GR materials might have some information for you as they are the ones selling and supplying the materials. They...
Hello Timothy I'm sure you're right that there are plenty of students who'd welcome on-line reading resources, but I suspect there are also plenty who are ...
Clive Lovelock
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Mar 3, 2004 3:55 am
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Dear Clive, I was not suggesting that students actually read from their monitors, although I would envisage that they would browser in that way. As I see it,...
Timothy, I totally agree with you I buy 80% of my books in Microsoft Reader format for reading on my pda or occasionally my laptop. It is cheaper than a...
Dear David Thank you for your reply. Either I didn't express myself clearly or you need to read my message more intensively! My request is for help in grading...
Clive Lovelock
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Mar 3, 2004 9:42 am
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Clive, I see what you are after. But what sort of books are you trying to assign to levels A or X? In Malaysia we developed a three-stage level U for adudlt...
David R. Hill
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Mar 3, 2004 12:26 pm
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Apparently there is software for Mac computers at least that automatically calculates reading level. How good is this? http://eigodaigaku.com Tel Work 083 933...
I do not know. It will grade text rather than readability of a book which involves criteria such as length, aspects of content and pagelayout. David Hill ......
David R. Hill
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Mar 3, 2004 1:20 pm
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Timothy, I too am an advocate of short magazine and newspaper articles. I write from Venezuela and to buy books in this part of the world is expensive though...
Given that many students struggle with the language in NS magazines, which magazines do you recommend for them? When they bring in an article with 50 L1...
Dear Juan, (And to Roy, who just now beat me to it) It was partly due to your post on this list (which I read in the archives) that prompted me to seek online...
Sorry I got your name wrong Rory Rory wrote ... One idea might be to set up a "rewriters collective"? I think that there may be quite a few magazines, at least...
No-takers for the Re-writers collective yet, but I see that we have at least one Re-writer on the list (you know who you are!), and here is a lady that is...
My 2 cents I have been doing something that the students really love (how about THAT for a change!!!). I'm trying to bridge the gap between native and...
On Friday, Mar 5, 2004, at 03:25 Japan, ... If you have never checked out "Highlights for Children," I strongly urge you to. Unlike many childrens' magazines,...
On Friday, Mar 5, 2004, at 03:25 Japan, ... This is a truly outstanding idea. I personally have found rewriting to be a lot more difficult that it would first...
Hi Rory, I have used DISCOVER (www.discover.com), PEOPLE, NEWSWEEK, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, SCIENCE, PC WORLD, ROLLING STONES, BIKING, etc. All of them written...
Rob You're a genius. I like your "2 cents" very much. Must try it. Having buttered you up, I also have to say that I vehemently disapprove of doctoring...
Clive Lovelock
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Mar 5, 2004 3:12 am
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There you have it. If books work for you, why change? If you don't think magazine articles are a good choice, why bother? I would like however, to make a point...
And Tim, I forgot to thank you for your kind opening words. Thanks, Juan ... most ... vocabularly, ... focus, ... probably ... more ... written ... ...
Rob, Rob, I too enjoyed reading your posting. It's the learners who can tell us how interesting or difficult a text can be. As reading teachers we have the...
Dear Rob is there any chance of sharing your students works, ideally in a corrected form? Juan - I did not realise your materials had been re-written. That...
Hi all ... You're a genius. I know I know!!! And so modest too. (joke!) Thanks for the nice words. Has anyone else done something similar to this? ... So...
... Hmm, I guess so but only as photocopies because the students wrote on the papers themselves. I guess I COULD put some up online as jpgs, but then browsing...
David We seem to have been writing at cross-purposes. I assumed you knew my students are university students, so I didn't mention it, but the mention of books...
Clive Lovelock
lovelock@...
Mar 5, 2004 7:51 am
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Clive My prejudice against using such books as you list in a language learning programme means that I have never graded them or tried to put them into an er...
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