Hi every1, In the school where I work we have an ER program that covers from Primary School to the senior years of High SChool. This Program is in the database...
I would strongly encourage members of both the ER and EL groups to listen to Dr. Jeff McQuillan's "Using iPods and iTunes for Language Education." It is...
Richard Sparks and Lenore Ganschow have done a lot of work in this area. I haven't read anything by them in a few years, but, from what I remember, their...
I've been working on a revamp of my site and was wondering whether to replace the EFL with ESL in the title. I'd appreciate advice as to which term is now more...
Kieran, Though the two are technically different, it is my perception from personal experience and observation, that ESL is often used to represent both. Many...
Thanks for the time and your pront reply. I'll read the article carefully. Extensive listening sounds also as a good suggestion. Thanks again. Any other...
For some idiotic reason I wrote Brad rather than Brett in my previous email. Blame it on the drugs or working too hard or something ..... Apologies to Brett. ...
My college has given me permission to do an experiment with the students. I'll appreciate any suggestions members have on it. It will be a test of Extensive...
Dear Everyone, SSS group has published 9 books for Extensive Reading in JAPANESE. http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/information/books-on-SSS.html These are the follows:...
Read 100 Books and Win a Prize $B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(BApril 2, 2007 SSS Extensive Reading Study Group is now promoting a reading...
Hi, I just joined the list. Below a longish post, no. 1 badly needed. 1. REQUEST: I’m looking for the specific in-house word lists that define levels for...
... Publishers are reluctant to give them away because a lot of time and effort has going into their construction and they don't want other publishers to...
Thanks Rob, for input. Very interesting, because you speak as an insider to some extent. LISTS: Hard to believe publishers think their 700 or 1,200 word lists...
... I disagree. Anyone can generate a frequency list, but it takes a huge amount of time to make a good one - especially one that has to consider all or some...
... I disagree. Anyone can generate a frequency list, but it takes a huge amount of time to make a good one - especially one that has to consider all or some...
This is my first-time posting, but I have gotten a lot out of reading the posts of others over the last few months. I thought people might be interested in our...
Thank you so much. Your work is VERY impressive. Frank Christensen HCMC, Vietnam laferlazzo@... wrote: This is my first-time posting, but I have gotten a...
... From: ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Templer Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 3:25 PM To:...
Hi Bill, Rob and everyone, A couple of comments on wordlists. From Michael West in the 1930s onwards, publishers were open about the wordlists they developed...
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I don't know if this is helpful, but I was just looking over a book today that I've had for a long time. It is An English French German Spanish Word Frequency...
... Why? If you invested 10 years of your life creating something that you could earn money from, why give it away? People write books for the money as much as...
Dear Rob, Bill, et al Of course there's always a tension between what can be offered free via Open Source or what is in the public domain, such as the GSL...
... And any *potential* author! There the OP's answer. Write to OUP, Cambridge, et al, tell them you're interested in writing readers, request their...
Some comments on Bill's last post: <bill_templer@...> wrote: "My students in Thailand, in Laos, back in Bulgaria, cannot afford commercial readers in any case....
Dear ER & Vocabulary Researching Colleague, Would you be so kind as to rank these phases or states of lexical processing in the order in which you would teach...
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