Hi. It's me again. For the 7th year in a row, 48 students at the Universidad Simón Bolívar will be reading texts online and send in their main ideas to a...
Hi Juan and all, I concur with Juan Pino that we do need to teach students to read online materials. He asks why isn't much of this being done. Let me offer ...
... following up on my own post. I just thought of this. I mentioned in the post that ... ... Two major problems for L2 readers (and teachers) are a) finding ...
Rob, Can I email you about this PhD idea, separately from the mailing list, please? Celine ... Hi Juan and all, I concur with Juan Pino that we do need to...
Celine Kamhieh
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Jan 16, 2005 4:44 am
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Well Rob I can't say that your previous posting was a gift to ER practitioners around the world that do think they are doing ER even if they use ungraded but...
Juan I don't know how long you've been teaching, but when I started my first teaching job in East Africa as a fresh graduate from university, GRADED readers...
Clive Lovelock
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Jan 18, 2005 12:48 am
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Hi Clive, My first encounter with graded books was early in my high school days (1963-69). I know they have been around for quite a while. What I think are...
Juan Thanx for your prompt reply. Let me dash this off before I forget. Like Mathew, I'm in the throes of end-of-term admin, so e-mail often gets to the bottom...
Clive Lovelock
lovelock@...
Jan 19, 2005 12:50 am
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Hi ... Oh dear I do seem to have stirred a hornets nest. But of course. I don't understand why you point this out. I'm not denying the many flavours of ER....
... I think this issue we have been discussing this last few days gets back to where we were 18 months ago about defining ER. What is it? what isn't it? So...
I totally agree with Rob's proper motivation as a foreign language teacher to provide L2 readers with some type of understandable SIGNS regarding the ...
John Paul Loucky
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Jan 19, 2005 12:49 pm
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L1 or L2 Intensive Reading The material is NOT at a comfortable reading level where a lot of the language is UNknown (the aim is to teach it). IR IS NOT...
John Paul Loucky
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Jan 19, 2005 1:13 pm
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I think a mechanical aid to grading is a valuable tool. I don't see any reason why we would limit it to web pages. In fact, practically speaking, getting a...
Hi, Brett and Everyone, I am sure that we will soon have plenty of resources available to us to improve what we now do intuitively. When we have those tools I...
Hi everyone, For more on ER Definition, see messages number 909 up to 936 in this list. Juan ... the ... LANGUAGE." IN ... STUDENTS IN ... were or ... would...
Rob John and all, I was about to respond to this but these two portions (of the larger piece below) are not the best example of tolerance to new or different...
Just a quick note before I foget: For more on Web-ER see messages 877 up to 859 and some other messages in the vicinity. Juan ... larger ... I ... language. ...
educaonline2@... My apologies to you Juan, for coming across too strongly. Please don’t take comments personally tho, as we are only debating ideas. ...
John Paul Loucky
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Jan 21, 2005 2:01 am
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Hi everyone I'm just pitching in a few words on the subject for the first time. I've been teaching at one institution or another for the past 15 years in...
Dear Louise Thank you for your first contribution to this list. I didn't "listen" to your "rambling" as you put it, but did read every word and "heard" them ...
Clive Lovelock
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Jan 22, 2005 5:34 am
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Hi JP I'm afraid I can't attend JALTCALL 2005 but would be interested in reading about your system. By the way, I have not forotten your request some time ago...
Clive Lovelock
lovelock@...
Jan 22, 2005 6:08 am
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On Saturday, Jan 22, 2005, at 21:25 Japan, ... I second Clive's congratulations. One of the most heartening moments of my career came when I was walking...
Apologies accepted. I´ve no further comments. Juan ... ideas. ... AS IT IS ... ROB goes on to ... ONE TYPE ... MANY IN ... STUDENTS NEED ... OFTEN GAINED ... ...
Juan, If you feel you need an apology, then an apology is sincerely offered. Yes I did say that it was 'crazy' to ask students to read native level materials...
... (clip) ... I teach an ER course on the web. We mostly make use of non-fiction sites originally written for younger native speakers. Since it in ...
In my message yesterday, I mistyped one of the URLs. It should have been: ajkids.com (not ej...) ... I do explain why we are using kids' sites (language level)...
Hi, This may be relevant to the discussion. It may not just be that the materials are too difficult; it could have lots to do with webpage layout, and how easy...
Andy Barfield
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Jan 26, 2005 8:06 am
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Hi everyone, Sorry to be slow in responding to this thread. I gave a presentation on an informal experiment I did with online extensive reading at TESOL in...
Rob, OK Rob, Thanks. I have re-read and will respond to your posting. I will make this very short though. I have opened WEB-Extensivereading@yahoogroups.com...
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