Hi ER list, Below is an announcement of a new award for language learner literature (graded readers) in English. If you are involved with or know of any ELT ...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jun 3, 2004 6:46 am
1948
The latest issue of Reading Research Quarterly contains a paper by eight authors (Carlo et al) on vocabulary teaching. The editor's note on page 206 says that...
Lynn is correct to note that certain individuals have financial interest in promoting their ideas. In a capitalist society, that is not a bad thing. As a...
Lynn thanks for this. ... But the tests that establish that L1 kids learn 1000 words per year (e.g Nation Goulden and Read, Nagy et al etc.) only establish...
Very well put, Rob!~ What many have been feeling at a gut level all along, someone finally had the guts and brains to say. Congratulations! Indeed, even the...
JPL
jploucky@...
Jun 8, 2004 1:09 pm
1952
Hi, I´ve recently designed some "Word Surfing" Vocabulary Cards - and the idea is now available at "English Specialist" (thanks to George) ...
I have been teaching 14 students in a three-week, 44-hour, EL summer school program with Spanish speaking students, 4th-8th grade, public school, inner city...
Yesterday I inadvertently wrote:: If we want to teach English proficiency, there are many methods available to us. Many methods will allow us and our students...
An interesting insight into current approaches to reading in the UK was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Women's Hour' yesterday. You can listen to it...
Hi everyone, One major problem ER practitioners have today is answer the question what is success in ER? We all understand that we want to our students to read...
John Paul Loucky: Juan is quite right that "learners' perceptions of what constitutes success can provide a basis for discussion between teachers and students...
JPL
jploucky@...
Jun 13, 2004 2:23 am
1959
Hi all This is a bit of tome, you have been warned! I'm trying to work out how to get back on track for a whole school approach and so I'm using 'talk/write...
Hi again JPL, please tell me more about VKS and VLS. This is the fundamental problem of my learners, their very limited vocabulary. I need to know how to...
Resource finely graded books are needed Accurate assessment method needed to match your graded resources preferably with an accepted "reading age" standard...
Hi Wendy, See my responses*** Juan, I love the idea of chat dialogues. How old are your learners? 1.***16-18 college students (dialogue e-mail) 2.***8-16...
Thanks for responding. There is failure and failure is a measure of success. For instance, wrong choice of materials often short-circuits motivation to read. ...
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~bgrossen/rr.htm The site discusses scientifically flawed data collecting process to validate RR.. READING RECOVERY: AN EVALUATION...
take one hero (mine is as neill ) who believes in the individuals will to learn if given an environment which says that we want to empower you .... and give...
Just to provide a helpful summary of debatable research on the Reading Recovery Program: Summary * The Reading Recovery data reporting system is flawed. * The...
JPL
jploucky@...
Jun 14, 2004 3:46 am
1967
Hi all Huge thanks to all those who added to the ideas. I have sort of jumped onto the reading recovery bandwagon and huge thanks for all the cautions. At...
John I don't wish to be rude, and maybe I've been living in Japan so long that my English is out-of-date (passed its read-by date), but I'm having difficulty...
Clive Lovelock
lovelock@...
Jun 15, 2004 1:16 am
1969
Kieran McGovern's site is excellent. Thank you. Pat Teach others how to read and their future will have no limits! Pat Doran, M.Ed. Edu-STEPS, Inc. ...
Regarding Wendy's frustration regarding teaching of vocabulary. Here is my approach that I find successful in my current summer program class of 15 monolingual...
Question: Do other non-English countries have trouble with individuals with dyslexia in reading of their own language? French? Russian? German? Chinese? ...
Pat, Have never seen any research on it in other languages. Knew of friend's family in NE US that had an actual perceptual reversal of not just reading but who...
JPL
jploucky@...
Jun 16, 2004 1:32 am
1973
Hi Juan A belated response to your posting. On the book review form that I have my students fill in, in addition to writing some comments about the contents, I...
Clive Lovelock
lovelock@...
Jun 16, 2004 10:50 am
1974
Success is showing people where to go (a modelled progress path ) The books ..you need a full set so that you can arrange paired reading to get the weekly...
To be sure, there are individuals with perception problems, but am curious as to the number of actual ones. Since phonics instruction can reverse the ...
Hi all Many thanks to those who pipped in with ideas. Kieran I loved listening to the Woman's Hour and am fascinated that this dilemma is still strong today....
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