Stimulated by a suggestion from Julian, I have updated the Extensive Reading site "Materials" page, adding a new section on "Free downloadable materials." The...
Dear all, I must apologize for the delay of reporting the results of the questionnaire concerning management of ER books conducted 04/12 - 05/05. I have...
Atsuko Takase
atsukot@...
Sep 18, 2005 6:04 am
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Hi, The NYTimes did an article this week on the popularity of English versions of Japanese manga among teenage girls in the US. the URL is...
We're compiling our yearly order of readers and I noticed that CUP has a number of books marked "Contains adult material that may not be suitable for younger...
Can somebody recommend any of the Junior African Writers Series that would be suitable for college age students? Best, Brett ... Brett Reynolds English...
Dear Brett, I attach a list of those with mainly adult protagonists. Hope you can get hold of them. I commend especially The Money Game. Best wishes David ...
EPER Enquiries
Eper.Enquiries@...
Sep 26, 2005 11:06 am
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Dear Brett I am sure Philip will give you the official CER account and I will be interested to see if he accepts the following: "There is no explicit...
EPER Enquiries
Eper.Enquiries@...
Sep 26, 2005 11:18 am
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Dear All Apologies for not responding to Brett and David's postings sooner - grandparenting duties intervened. As this included reading bedtime stories it...
Thanks for that Philip, and for taking time away from the grand- parenting duties. As a parent with two young children, I can certainly appreciate active...
Dear All You may have read my recent comments about the quality of the stories in the upper levels of the Cambridge English Readers. Let me amplify them for...
EPER Enquiries
Eper.Enquiries@...
Sep 29, 2005 1:01 pm
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Those of you working with Chinese students may be interested in the following: Kwah Poh Foong and Michael Vallance. (editors) Teaching English to Chinese ESL...
David Hill wrote: "... I do not quite know what the secret ingredient is, but maybe the CER scheme brings out the professional skills of the language teachers...
Greetings all, I've attached a handout about the ER Forum happening at JALT 2005 in Shizuoka, Japan, this weekend (Oct. 7-10) for those of you who may be...
Does anyone know an RSS feed appropriate for learners? I am experimenting with the Moodle RSS feeds block. The Voice of America News Feeds are not bad but...
Hi Brett and everyone My apologies for not responding earlier to Brett's question about regional variation in pilot and questionnaire response to reader genre...
Is there any way to get hold of any of the handouts or notes from some of the mentioned speakers? Thanks Celine ... Greetings all, I've attached a handout...
Celine Kamhieh
celine.kamhieh@...
Oct 15, 2005 4:52 am
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... Me, too! Me, too! I managed to miss almost all the presentations I intended to go to. Incidentally, a big round of applause to Marc and Rob for the ...
Jim and others had asked about ER Forum JALT 05 Handouts. Mine is really just an outline, but some of you may find the placement URLs worth taking a look at.If...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Oct 17, 2005 3:30 am
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Hi all Tracy, I'd like to know more about The Elephant Man method. Re. 2-3 unknown words per page, do you leave this up to your learners to
decide? This also...
Hi Wendy, the "2 to 3 unknown words per TWO (graded readers) pages test" is the method outlined by Rob in the publication he did for Oxford (see URL in the ...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Oct 17, 2005 7:57 am
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Wendy, If I understand the origin of this rule of thumb - comprehensible input hypothesis (Krashen) - it would be independent of age, I believe. In this...
Hi all Tks Tracy, always good to learn something new. I think it's wonderful that ER is included in your course. Regards Wendy ... From: Tracy Cramer Date:...
You're welcome Wendy. Wendy and Warren, Regarding the vocab, (and I don't have my Paul Nation book with me), but doesn't he say that the reader needs to know...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Oct 17, 2005 12:18 pm
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Hi again I need to scuttle back to the benchmark kit I'm using and what their formula
is for accuracy,but I'm pretty sure it's 93%. It's evening in Hong Kong...
Tracy, Yes, I believe you're correct, and I believe that S. Krashen makes a similar suggestion. Warren Tracy Cramer <cramer.tracy@...> wrote: You're...
A number of studies (e.g., Liu & Nation) have converged on 95% coverage as the minimum in order to be able to guess well enough to get a general level of...
Sorry everyone, Mark Alberding pointed out an error on my post the other day. I said: "The "2 to 3 unknown words per TWO (graded readers) pages test" is the ...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Oct 18, 2005 12:54 am
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Thanks for locating that information Brett. Tracy...
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