The VOA Special English URL = www.voanews.com/specialenglish (text + audio with limited vocab, somewhat simpler structure, slower, but fluent reading - good...
I take it that Rory meant, The same goes for learning to vocabulary usage. LEARNING TO USE VOCABULARY.? Although they have all spent years studying vocabulary,...
John Paul Loucky
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Jul 1, 2006 7:47 am
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I take it that Rory meant, The same goes for learning to vocabulary usage. LEARNING TO USE VOCABULARY.? Although they have all spent years studying vocabulary,...
John Paul Loucky
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Jul 1, 2006 7:51 am
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There are hundred but begin with www.discover.com, www.sciam.com, www.businessmagazine. Most importantly, ask your students to find sites for you which contain...
Hi Rob and all, I certainly applaud Rob' s translations, scott's wriiting, Smith's novels. These can be 3 of the many creative ways by means of which students...
Most of the major consumer magazines – be sure to look at Time and National Geographic, also – provide significant amounts of reading material that can be...
Hello Rory, As I have said before (ELT News, June 2005), I do not ban supplementary activities as long as they make input more comprehensible. It is part of ...
Mason Beniko
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Jul 3, 2006 4:15 am
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Not sure I understand Rory R’s comment. He encourages students to skip when they read, but also asks them about the meanings of words they did not notice, so...
Hi Following Stephen's comments, logically there would be no place for dictionaries in language learning as a) they stop you reading more and b) it is learning...
1. Dictionaries are great when you are reading a text that you MUST understand that there is a crucial word you don't know. The act of looking up the word may...
Dear Stephen, I read with interest your exchange with Rob, and would love to hear how teachers at the intermediate level can "equip [learners] with strategies...
Tracy Cramer
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Jul 3, 2006 6:57 am
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Here are a few reading strategies (some of these are supported by research, some have not been investigated but are hypotheses. All are consistent with the...
Thank you. Pardon my mixing reading with listening strategies, but would you say Points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 could apply to audio texts as well? Are there...
Tracy Cramer
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Jul 3, 2006 7:26 am
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... ...would you say Points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 could apply to audio texts as well? Are there any other strategies you would add to listening extensively...
Hello all, ... Sorry, me writing tongue in cheek did not come through clearly. I'm well-aware of your views on this. ... I have a wealth of evidence. Reminder...
Hi all I skip masses when I read ...and I read a load for pleasure ... if I get to
a boring bit I just jump it but that doesn't stop me enjoying the jist of...
Re: Waring and Takakei, 2003 It turns out that I already commented on Rob's study in Power of Reading (2004, second edition), part of a long footnote (footnote...
Wendy said: I skip masses when I read ...and I read a load for pleasure ... if I get to a boring bit I just jump it but that doesn't stop me enjoying the jist...
Mason Beniko
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Jul 3, 2006 9:51 am
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Tracy, In addition to the strategy suggestions that Steve Krashen made, here are some you might want to look at if you want to pursue the question of what...
Hi Mmmm this would not work for young learners I'm pretty sure ... it
absolutely has to grip them or they give up or worse end up hating reading .
. but there...
Thanks a lot Rob for sharing your word-pair learning method and results with us all! Having read your paper on it, and used similar approaches I can also vouch...
John Paul Loucky
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Jul 3, 2006 2:17 pm
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Stephen, Thank you for that. I hadn't read your review and thank you for pasting into the mail. Firstly just to set the record straight, it's Takaki not...
John, Would you please clarify the methodology you described. Are you saying that the students were exposed to each of the 30 target words 240 times in the...
Wendy said: but surely you don't tell them you have to understand every word? W:) Beniko Mason: You must be talking to me? Often ER is regarded as a lot of...
Mason Beniko
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Jul 3, 2006 3:49 pm
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Warren, It's Rob's post you query BTW. ... The 30 target words occurred in the text a total of 240 times. Some words occurred 10 times, others 8 others 25. ...
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