Hi everyone, ER is not and should not be seen as a panacea. Some of it claims are controversials and practitioners are divided in more than one way. Because I...
For an interesting and well-done study on extensive reading and incidental vocabulary acquisition, see the article "Vocabulary acquisition from extensive...
Richard Day
rday@...
May 1, 2006 6:04 pm
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Dear Kaur and all, As you may well read from in series of papers I've written (for one see, the April Issue of The Reading Matrix) I am an advocate of the use...
Some thoughts on the controversial points. 1. Are claims of incidental learning of vocabulary overblown? Perhaps some are, but I can't see how anyone could...
Great Scott. Thanks for your time and insights and first-hand experience report. Thanks are extended to Professor Day too. This thread started well, I think. ...
Thanks Scott, I agree completely with Scott. I have just submitted the following paper to the Language Teacher that explains my position on this. It is titled...
Subject: Re: [ExtensiveReading] Controversies in ER Great Scott. Thanks for your time and insights and first-hand experience report. Thanks are extended to...
John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
May 2, 2006 1:24 am
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Hi all from a drizzly hot, humid Hong Kong I'm reading the recent flurry of postings with interest as ER is a top that
fascinates me. As a grass roots primary...
... I was very interested in Scott's comment above. Kudos to Scott for taking his learning into his own hands. I wish I had applied my own ELT philosophies...
A general waffly post about ER, or rather graded reading, and Asian languages follows... I wonder if there is any relationship between the importance of graded...
Hi everyone, I'd like to add a comment on each of these controversies. 1. Incidental vocabulary learning: I agree with the claim that ER promotes the...
... But aren't almost all students already involved in this kind of thing in IR lessons, or in speaking class, etc? If so, why the need to duplicate it with...
Hope you don't mind me re-relaying this again, I know many of you teach in
Japan and the questions are very relevant to all of us teachers irrespective
of...
Hi all, I've really enjoyed the dialog so far. 1. Regarding possibly 'overblown' reports on research. It's hard to create situations ideal for proving the...
Hi white and all, I am very happy how this thing is going for sure. It's feel good to initiate a thread, take the risk and then see those postings that keep...
Dear Juan, Thank for the very informative reply and article on the Matrix. I'm also trying out a similar project like urs but without the internet at the...
Hi Atsuko, I also work on Highschool, but its a public one, right now I am doing my thesis on "ER as part of the curricula in English Program", this is for a...
Spring Greetings All! Would like to take Juan up on his offer saying: "you can quote me here: ER and IR need not be not dichotomous; they can be placed on a...
John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
May 5, 2006 1:55 pm
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Hi everyone, Although your message was directly addresed to Juan, I'd like to comment on the situations you described. The "copying" issue: Teenagers seems to...
Hi everyone, I think context situation is very important, as a highschool english teacher who lives only 6 hours from the US, I've found that being closely...
Dear everyone, We, SSS Extensive Reading Study Group made a list for book titles which is related to cats. http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/word_count/cats.html ...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ExtensiveReading group: To support the discussion on the controversies, could you please take a...
ExtensiveReading@yaho...
May 13, 2006 5:26 pm
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Sorry for being thick but can you remind me what issues are under discussion
and then I can take part in the poll? W:) ... From:...
Hi, I don't know if any body else has had this problem, but when I switched my email address to a non yahoo account, I have not been able to access polls. The...
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