I really enjoyed the TESOL 2005 Conference in San Antonio last year, especially the ER sessions (with free books!). I've spent some time looking at the variety...
Thanks for this Brenda, This is good news. I will also be talking about how to write graded reader in the Materials Writers' Special interest Group session ....
Another ER presentation: 4585 *Title:* Placement and Assessment in Extensive Reading *Tracy Cramer*, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata City, Osaka, Japan ...
Tracy Cramer
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Jan 3, 2006 1:20 am
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Does anyone know about RIC readers. How do the levels compare with the EPER scale or with levels from the bigger series? Thanks. marc -- Marc Helgesen ...
Dear Marc, As for RIC Heedlights Readers Level 1-4, you can see SSS Reading Level on page 142 in "Dokusho Kiroku Techou" published from Cosmopier Publishing. ...
Dear everyone, I am FURUKAWA in SSS ER group. Oita Godo Shinbun, the most effective paper in Oita prefecture, reported about a university student who...
Dear List, I know Macmillan has been redesigning covers of the bought Heinemann Guided Readers, but can anyone tell me if there is a Pre-Intermediate (4) Level...
hI I have the UK list here. It says 5 levels Starter Beginner Elementary Intermediate Upper intermediate So I suppose level 4 is Intermediate not the pre-int...
Hello Ken, Rob and others, I know from Robert Habbick at Macmillan in Japan that they plan to have a Pre-Intermediate level ready soon... In fact, the 2006...
Ken, Heinemann Guided Readers had five levels, including a more recently added Starter level. So the new Macmillan Readers purchased in Taiwan indicate the...
Julian Bamford
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Feb 3, 2006 7:35 am
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Julian and all I too am baffled by the Macmillan grading. I think the gap between beginner (EPER F) and elementary (D) is plugged to some extent by the longer...
EPER Enquiries
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Feb 3, 2006 11:30 am
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Hi, I'm newish around here - been lurking for a month or so. Hope you don't mind if I join in here... MacMillan. I think there's probably a logical, marketing...
Hi, everybody This is sorta urgent -- sorry. I was asked today to deliver a short note by tomorrow justifying in detail the annual Y70,000 I've been gettiing...
Hi Jim We get about 150,000 yen per year, but this year we did not spend any of it as our library is well stocked. I found that asking for money for CDs and...
Dear Jim, we get nothing specifically in the Intensive English Studies program, but we do, at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, get 400,000 a year for...
Tracy Cramer
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Feb 6, 2006 1:52 pm
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Jim asked ... My school (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University) budgets me at ¥150,000/ year. (ok -- the the true info and you can quote it. but how it works is my...
Hi Jim, My answer is similar to Marc Helgesen's ... Members of the English department devote a portion, usually approximately 300,000 a year to building up our...
Hello all, Well, this is a rather timely question for me, as I have just FINALLY secured approval for the main library on campus to start housing graded...
Hi there From a completely different context (primary school in Hong Kong), the
English department gets 6,000 HK$/year to buy books for 800 students. As
this...
Thanks everybody, for the mind-blowing responses. On Tuesday, Feb 7, 2006, at 19:53 Japan, ... It's past my bedtime tonight, sorry, but I'll get back to you...
Hi again, all Here is the supplementary collation of ER funding comments that I have just sent to my Department's rep. All identifying elements removed, but...
Hi again, everybody, and thanks again for those wonderful responses to my question on how much you all receive for ER funding. I was able to include only two...
This year, ¥290,000 (Tezukayama Gakuin University Bungakubu) Clive...
LOVELOCK
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Feb 10, 2006 7:21 am
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Jim I sent you a reply too, but my new computer was sulking. It could receive messages, but wouldn't send any. it took me a few days to realize that none of my...
LOVELOCK
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Feb 10, 2006 8:45 am
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I took the liberty of forwarding recent comments and queries on the list about Macmillan to the publisher. Sorrel's reply went direct to those who had posted...
What levels have been given to Penguin's Moonfleet and Gandhi? Best, Brett ... Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber Institute of Technology and...
Hi everyone, ER has been the focus of much attention in the last decade. The focus has been three-pronged:theoretical, empirical and pedagogical. I tend to...
... They're both Penguin Level 2 (elementary), which EPER usually puts at Level "D" in their scheme. I don't know if David Hill has put one or both of those...
Julian Bamford
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Feb 13, 2006 8:41 am
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Thanks, No big reason. We just got the books in but couldn't agree so wanted another opinion. Best, Brett ... Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber...
Hi everyone I am writing to let you know about extensivereading.co.uk, a website I have set up to provide access to free online reading materials. The aim of...