Hi, (Disclaimer-- I don't have anything to do with Macmillan readers. But, like many folks on this list, I buy readers from most publishers and let my students...
Has anyone out there yet done a comparative study of students learning with vs w/o audio Extensive Listening support (some would argue “crutch”)? Or is...
John Paul Loucky
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Jun 9, 2005 9:47 am
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... Ronan Brown, Sangrawee Donkaewbua and I have done a three way study of the rate of learning of vocabulary from reading only, reading-while-listening and...
Thanks for your kind & quick reply, Rob! It comes as no surprise that Listening only is far harder & thus less effective than either EReading or ER & EL for FL...
John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
Jun 9, 2005 10:11 am
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Macmillan readersDear Marc Macmillan are not doing anything to the text of the Heinemann Guided Readers. They are giving them a new cover with a bright red...
EPER Enquiries
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Jun 9, 2005 11:26 am
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I've had a request to my website (http://www.gradedreading.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk) from a British EFL teacher working in Japan asking for advice on how to...
Thanks to Wendy, Tom, Jim,Rob and Mark Alberding for responding to my call in order to list our ER Programs in in orderly manner and give it some visibility....
I am an English teacher teaching at Rajabhat University in Thailand and I am doing a reserach on ER with 120 English Major students at my university. I would...
Welcome to the extensive reading list. Do you know about the annotated bibliography at <www.extensivereading.net>? People researching ER sometimes find useful...
Julian Bamford
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Jun 21, 2005 3:07 am
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Are there any ER list members attending and/or presenting at LitCon 2005 in Penang--August this year? I'm interested in having a Japan-related and/or...
Dear Charles, I had never heard of it until you metioned it. They are actually still taking proposals til 6/30. For anyone interested, here's the URL to the...
Thanks for that link Tracy. My miss for not posting more information. I had posted this to the Literacy Across Cultures list earlier this year, but I guess it...
Please see: "Does Accelerated Reader Work? The (Lack of ) Experimental Evidence Supporting the Use of Accelerated Reader" Stephen Krashen Journal of Children's...
Dear Dedicated Reading Colleagues, Appreciate S Krashen's many helpful articles in the reading field. Re several of them, would like to briefly comment (if I...
John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
Jun 25, 2005 7:50 am
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Hello, The following might give insight into RR. Research was done by the University of Oregon with the principle researchers being either in favor of or ...
Someone asked offlist what the dates are for the LitCon 2005. The PDF itself has changed from last spring, so note if you have an old PDF, the dates have...
I really couldn't tell the difference between their two types of questions they have at the site, except the literacy skills test seems to have more types of...
would like to send my praise for your valuable studies! inorder to see the effects of extensive reading on reading development, at least how many books...
Hi Bayram, Based on an analysis of the vocabulary in graded readers, and a bit of guesswork, Paul Nation recommends one graded reader a week at the appropriate...
As much as Nation's recommendation makes sense, I have yet to find higher level Japanese students who can find the time to read 100 pages/week (the length of a...
Our target is to read one book every three classes (twice a week course. Almost all reading is done outside of class. During class-time activities based on the...
Williams
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Jun 29, 2005 1:23 am
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Dear Colleagues, This year at the ER Forum at the JALT Conference in Japan, I will be presenting on the range of practices that teachers use to help match...
Hi Tracy You haven't mentioned what age group but as I'm just level testing the whole
of Primary 3-6 (ages 8-12 years) young learners (YL) at my school (with...
Dear Colleagues, This year at the ER Forum at the JALT Conference in Japan, I will be presenting on the range of practices that teachers use to help match...
Hi Tracy, I am FURUAKAWA Akio, the head teacher of SEG juku school. ... We recommend every students to start fromt the very beginning level such as Oxford...
Hi Wendy, it sounds like you're doing a great job for the YLs of HK! I'm in Okinawa, and it sure seems like HK is doing a better job of preparing their youth...
Hi all Chris, thanks for the kind words. Need them to get me thru' this uphill
battle I've taken on .. altho' I think I can see a wee bit of light .... In HK...
Hi all, Greetings from Melbourne! My name is Ming, a humble ex-English teacher with language backgrounds of Indonesian and Mandarin Chinese. I am trying to get...
... EPER Placement Test. Since none of our students seem to start above EPER level 4, we use only the first half of one of their (3) placement tests - a...
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