This post is in reference to David Hill's article to the Taipei Times. Generally I agree that fluent reading should be a part of the high stakes examinations....
"Currently, students are trained in the skill of finding the correct answers from a difficult reading without the burden of having to actually comprehend the...
Dave Kees wrote: So you are saying that students are ONLY trained in "intensive reading" and receive no training in "extensive reading"? They are never...
Hi every1, First of all, I want to make clear the fact that I'm not against testing. I'm against the traditional view that testing is the ONE and ONLY means of...
... Scott has already answered this, but here's part of the abstract, taken from the online extensive reading bibliography ...
Julian Bamford
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Dec 2, 2006 1:48 am
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Do you think if students spent one hour a week for about 40 weeks doing Extensive Reading it will make significant difference in their English ability? Dave...
... It would depend on their starting level, age, the test you use, etc. If you mean 'significant' in the sense of distinguishable from random fluctuation, I...
Dear Mr. Tom Mccarthy, This is my reply to your questions. I will send the reply to the listserv, as you asked me the questions there. *********** You said: ...
Mason Beniko
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Dec 2, 2006 4:37 pm
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That's pretty inspiring Ulla! Thanks a lot. And thank you very much for the websites. Elham...
Were any of the six students receiving any English training aside from the Extensive Reading? You mentioned the imprecise nature of the TOEFL when discussing...
Dave, ... ***** NO. As it was explained in the paper, this study was done when they were not in school. ... **** Regarding Yoko's case, as I said, the...
Mason Beniko
benikomason@...
Dec 3, 2006 8:26 am
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">Were any of the six students receiving any English training aside from ... study was done when they were not in school." Yes, I realized you mentioned that...
Hi, everyone. I am trying to track down a reference to an article by someone called Minton about SSR not being particularly effective if done at the same time...
This is a reminder that registration for TESOL 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA (March 21-24, 2007) opened on December 1st. A colleague and I have also...
Hi Eleanor, I did a Google search for the Minton article and came up with this handout from Stephen Krashen's website: "88 [research-based] generalizations...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Dec 4, 2006 7:39 am
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For those who are interested, a paper I published in the JALT2005 Proceedings is now available on-line. It is titled The Role of ER in Second Language...
Hi Eleanor, I have recently implemented SSR in one of my university classes here in Sendai. Students spend about 20 minutes reading within a 90 minute lesson....
Hello everyone, I am having a problem explaining vocabulary to my students these days. I have a passage and the passage has lets say 23 words. They know the...
HI Rory, As you suspected, only JALT members can access the file. Would you mind sending it to us? If you can't (or would rather not) send it to the whole...
... days. I have a passage and the passage has lets say 23 words. They know the meaning in Arabic but I want them to give me the definition in English using...
Re. Rory's article which Scott has found is only available online to JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) members. Why has JALT made its...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Dec 5, 2006 2:11 am
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Some associations place their most recent articles in a members-only area, but allow free access to older ones. That way there is still a member benefit but...
Hi, Yes we should petition them to do so. Certainly make say the most current 3 months unavailable but after than open them I say. The more people read the...
As a side note, apparently copyright resides with the author, so the author can post the .pdf file either to this list or their own website... An option for...
Hi everyone, I'd like to introduce some new (or new to me) reading materials that are going down well with students at the university in Japan where I teach....
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Dec 5, 2006 10:19 am
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If copyright rests with the author, please just send a copy of the article to me and I'll put it up on the www.extensivereading.net pages. Cheers, Tom ... -- ...
Julian, We have used the (American) Scholastic magazine - which sounds identical to what you describe - for several years with wide acceptance and success...
Assalamu Alikum Dr. Ali, The two mailing lists that I have subscribed to are: ESOL_Teacher@yahoogroups.com & ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com Best, Aysha ...
Hi everyone I am one of the proofreaders for The Language Teacher (one of JALT's publications), and I asked about our policy yesterday. This was the answer: ...
Hi Ben, First, thanks a lot for proofreading The Language Teacher. And many thanks for asking about the policy--which, yes, is understandable. I didn't know...
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