[Anita wrote: I grade my students based on the number of pages they have read....I sometimes find that some students only read the first part and the last part...
Julian Bamford
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Sep 1, 2006 9:25 am
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But isn't testing extensive reasoning raising the affective filter? It just seems to me that the real value of extensive reading does not lend itself to...
Hi there, Regarding the issue of extesive reading, testing, and affective filters... I think this concern once again supports the idea of reading circles. One ...
Hi all I wonder if those of you in Japan could answer this questions for me: 1) at what age is English taught in Japanese mainstream (state/ministry aided)...
I would like to underscore what Julian so elequently discusses and Mathew White presents - having students do something after they have read their books. When...
Richard Day
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Sep 4, 2006 7:49 pm
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Hi Pat, I agree that the measure should be the amount of reading completed. But, unfortunately most teachers and administrators want proof of reading, and...
chris binch
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Sep 5, 2006 4:10 am
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This has been an interesting conversation on evaluation and checking to make sure the reading has been done. In any class that gives grades, I agree that...
"Therefore, many of us have to resign ourselves to the fact that we are guilty of corrupting ER..." And that is the crux of the problem, isn't it? ER as a way...
Dave, Excellent use of VOA! Thanks! You just filled in a gap I was trying to fill with my own students. Warren dk <davekees1@...> wrote: "Therefore, many...
Wendy wrote: "I wonder if those of you in Japan could answer this questions for me:..." Hi Wendy, Don't know if anyone answered you. The following are very ...
Julian Bamford
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Sep 6, 2006 9:15 am
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Hi Julian Sorry for not thanking you sooner but I've just come back from Japan ... so
a belated thanks for the info on Japan. I know feel I know a little more...
POINT OF VIEW/ Shinichiro Noriguchi$B!'(BEnglish education leaves much to be desired 09/15/2006 SPECIAL TO THE ASAHI SHIMBUN More than 100 years ago Natsume...
hi. I can't wait to say something after reading your e-mail. I quite agree wth you on some points about teaching english. something worse ocurrs not only in...
One school near me had a Japanese Exchange student come for a year and people said she cried everyday. Her English was atrocious and she could not make...
Hi all I have a research about intensive reading.But the problem is I couldn't write too much about it.YOU KNOW IT IS INTESIVE .can you please direct me to...
... The graded readers have been a huge success here at Lakeshore and unfortunately, this means a shortage of books available to your students. There are...
"...he or she has studied english for more than 10 years. but they can not express themselves clearly or can not use english properly, not to mention writing....
Dave, Let me say up front that my bias is toward comprehensible input, which may skew my answer in the eyes of some. I don't think it's so much a question of...
One of the critcisms about the Input (Comprehension) Hypothesis was that it takes too long to acquire (Long and Robinson, 1998). It is not so. The ...
Mason Beniko
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Sep 25, 2006 7:55 am
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Fantastic story. I, too, have had similar success with our graded readers. We have a modest library at our small school in Japan for about 30 adult students....
So you are saying that a statement like "...he or she has studied english for more than 10 years. but they cannot express themselves clearly or can not use...
Dave, I would say that other variables, like the instructional methodology and the quantity and quality (if by quality you mean comprehensibility) of the input...
Hi, I don't mean the maximum or minimum of years spend in learning English in my statement to express themselves clearly, but the ineffective or inefficient...
Quick list of sources for articles on reading; certainly not exhaustive: ER Annotated Bibliography - http://www.extensivereading.net/er/biblio.html Beniko...
Dear ER list members, The Daily Yomiuri will introduce SSS 2006 campaign for 100 books reading in English tomorrow. In my article, I wrote book logs for two...
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