The VOA Special English URL = www.voanews.com/specialenglish (text + audio with limited vocab, somewhat simpler structure, slower, but fluent reading - good...
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John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:47 am
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,...
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John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:51 am
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,...
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juanarturo Pino
educaonline2
Jul 1, 2006 2:22 pm
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...
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juanarturo Pino
educaonline2
Jul 1, 2006 2:28 pm
And most certainly we in this way create an audience for our L2 writers.Good points Stephen. Juan Stephen Krashen <skrashen@...> wrote: Re: Warren...
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juanarturo Pino
educaonline2
Jul 1, 2006 2:32 pm
Great Tim. I think we could use the database feature for the purpose of keeping links that might be of use to us all. Juan Takemoto <timtak@...>...
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juanarturo Pino
educaonline2
Jul 1, 2006 2:39 pm
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...
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Warren Ediger
wediger
Jul 1, 2006 3:31 pm
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...
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Rory Rosszell
rosszell
Jul 3, 2006 12:14 am
Extensive Reading ... From: ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com To: ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 4:57 PM Subject:...
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Mason Beniko
benikomason@...
Jul 3, 2006 4:15 am
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 ...
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Stephen Krashen
skrashen
Jul 3, 2006 4:17 am
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...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Jul 3, 2006 6:08 am
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...
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Stephen Krashen
skrashen
Jul 3, 2006 6:28 am
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...
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Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Jul 3, 2006 6:57 am
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...
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Stephen Krashen
skrashen
Jul 3, 2006 7:14 am
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...
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Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Jul 3, 2006 7:26 am
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...
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Stephen Krashen
skrashen
Jul 3, 2006 8:27 am
... ...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...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Jul 3, 2006 8:37 am
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...
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Wendy Arnold
wendyahk
Jul 3, 2006 9:07 am
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...
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Stephen Krashen
skrashen
Jul 3, 2006 9:13 am
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...
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Wendy Arnold
wendyahk
Jul 3, 2006 9:18 am
All these strategies make excellent sense whether it's L1 or L10! Bravo,
Stephen! W:) ....
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Mason Beniko
benikomason@...
Jul 3, 2006 9:51 am
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...
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Warren Ediger
wediger
Jul 3, 2006 11:05 am
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...
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Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
Jul 3, 2006 12:00 pm
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Wendy Arnold
wendyahk
Jul 3, 2006 12:37 pm
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...
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John Paul Loucky
jploucky@...
Jul 3, 2006 2:17 pm
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...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Jul 3, 2006 2:53 pm
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...
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Warren Ediger
wediger
Jul 3, 2006 3:00 pm
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...
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Mason Beniko
benikomason@...
Jul 3, 2006 3:49 pm
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...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Jul 3, 2006 4:00 pm
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. ...
