... I want to thank all of you here in the group, all your topics from where I have learned a lot. I wish you all the best for you and families. HAPPY NEW YEAR...
Alan Maley is conducting a survey about ER for a book chapter he is working on. If could fill out the survey and return it to him (yelamoo@...), he would...
Marc, When we get emails on the Yahoo site the email addresses are cut short. Could you possibly repost Alan Maley's email replacing the @ by an *? Thanks Dick...
Marc/Dick, The digest that I received did contain a complete address for Alan Maley, supposedly at yahoo.com, but when I tried to reply to his survey with that...
There was a problem on the email address (that one is supposed to work but it doesn't seem to). Please use: yelamoo@... Thanks. marc -- Marc Helgesen ...
Hello, everyone-- I'm still an aspiring teacher, enrolled in what should be my last quarter of my MATESOL. I'm working on a project involving a course proposal...
My personal sense is that ER tends to be used by EFL folk, while SSR is a first language thing. We did English SSR when I was at school in English-speaking...
Hi Clarissa, To elaborate on Brett's answer, SSR is a classroom activity which has first language roots, and is also something that (second/foreign language)...
Julian Bamford
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Jan 16, 2007 1:32 am
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... Sorry, a quick correction. That should be Stephen Cary. -- Clarissa C. S. Ryan wintersweet@......
Julian, I just happened to have reread a couple of Krashen's recent works over the holidays. Here are his uses: FVR - "...reading because you want to...no book...
Brett, Your observation re the use of ER is generally correct, but some of us - I'm in southern California - have begun to use it in the way Krashen does (see...
One way to look at the terminology is to relate it to the main "characteristics" of Extensive Reading, which in fact, may or may not be present in any specific...
Thanks, everyone! I really appreciated all of the answers. That clears things up for me. (Oh, and I do have _The Power of Reading_ on order at the local...
Hi everyone, A. Hirvela makes the followinf distinction between ER and FVR: "In a typical extensive reading school setting, for example, a particular classroom...
Hi all Happy New Year! Apologies if you've received a similar message via other means. Shelagh Rixon (at Warwick U) and I are co-writing a chapter on YL ...
Hi When I posted this yesterday, I had the wrong email for Alan (I put .com instead of .co.uk). It is correct in the following. ... Extensive Reading Survey....
I'm not sure how many people on this list are members of TESL-L. It is on the general subject of English teaching and has 30,914 members at the moment. We're...
Just to share huge database of info on both topics: On Word Lists and their study, go to: HYPERLINK ...
John Paul Loucky
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Jan 19, 2007 2:45 pm
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So to be clear, FVR=Free Voluntary Reading, with no specific feedback necessary or demanded, is that right? John Paul Loucky jploucky@... Check out...
John Paul Loucky
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Hi everyone, I am looking for any graded reader series set in North East Asian countries: Japan, China, Korea, and Russia. My university teaches all 4 of these...
Hello There are some graded readers written for learners of Japanese available at http://www.nihongo-yomu.jp/ Rob Waring ... Cheers Rob waring_robert@......
Has anyone read the following article? Unfortunately, I don't have access (but if anyone who does would like to share...) The Modern Language Journal Volume...
++I fixed the URL++ Has anyone read the following article? Unfortunately, I don't have access (but if anyone who does would like to share...) The Modern...
I now have a copy of the paper. Thanks to those who responded! Best, Brett <http://english-jack.blogspot.com> ... Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber...
There are some simple picture books/stories available on line at: http://www.e-hon.jp/index2.htm They include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English and several...