Hi everyone, I'm a member of IATEFL and this announcement about their 2008 conference in Exeter, UK, just arrived. It invites members to organize a symposium...
Julian Bamford
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May 10, 2007 12:25 am
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Dear Colleagues, I just got an email from David Williams wondering if there was going to be an ER Forum at JALT this year. I had to tell David that not to my...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
May 16, 2007 9:02 am
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Hi I'd like to see something happen too. Did David say it was Ok to apply? Not too late? R ... Cheers Rob waring_robert@... Skype: waring_robert...
If anything happens, let me know. I plan to attend this year's conference. Richard ... -- Richard R. Day, Ph.D. Chairman and Professor Department of Second...
Richard Day
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May 18, 2007 9:37 pm
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Tracy, You're involved in the JALT process, do you have contacts who might help out? R ... Cheers Rob waring_robert@... Skype: waring_robert...
Hi Rob, I was, but not this year, as being a dad and teaching takes up all my time. So I had to withdraw my name as the Featured Speaker Liaison, and may,...
Tracy Cramer
cramer.tracy@...
May 19, 2007 9:07 am
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Dear All I have at last got a revised site up and running. Please see http://www.ials.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/EPER.html David R Hill Project Director ...
EPER Enquiries
Eper.Enquiries@...
May 23, 2007 12:08 pm
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Dear ExtensiveReading group, I wish to introduce myself. I am an author whose books are used in many school programs to encourage children to express...
Hello, my name is Faith Fishley. I work for a Lifelong Learning Center In Suncheon City, South Korea. Our English program is community based and classes are...
Hello! My name is Ann and I'm a new member. I'm in the process of getting an Extensive Reading Project started in the first year of junior high school. I'm...
Hello Ann I'm sorry that we don't use Pebble Series from Capstone Press. Could you tell me some titile in Pebble Series? I'll buy them and check YLs. Best, ...
Hello-- I wrote in a few months ago about the idea of using translated manga (Japanese comics) in an ER program. I got some wonderful responses from people who...
Hi Clarissa, I did a paper once on authenticity in second language teaching and added the concept of using translated texts to the target language. Here it is:...
Hi Clarissa, Stuart 1990 describes an English extensive reading course in China that used English translations of Chinese folktales. There are a few...
Julian Bamford
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Jun 6, 2007 9:43 am
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Ron's article is very good, I wonder if others have been exploring translated texts. I have an article "Schooling the Imagination: Thai Literature in the EFL...
Two thumbs up on Clarissa's (and others') idea of using English-translated manga. Here are some reasons why I support this idea: -Optimal input has to be...
A quick comment on this topic: I have used English versions of popular Japanese manga (comics) as part of a free reading scheme with non-English major...
Dear Everyone, SSS Group, that publishes Dokusho Kiroku Techou (The Orange Book) and Tadoku Kanzen Bookguide made new reading level tables for English learners...
Hello all, I would like to measure my students' reading speed and I wonder if anyone has any tips or links that can help me out. I want to measure their gains...
Dear Furukawa-sensei (and everyone), Thank you for letting us know about your new reading level tables. And the great news about the updated Eigo Tadoku Kanzen...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jun 22, 2007 10:38 am
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I'll take exception with Ronald Gray's paper: Using Translated First Language Literature in the Second Language Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XI,...
More disagreement with Ronald Gray[1]. Let's take a look at the example of literature Ronald Gray uses with his third-year undergraduate English majors, Dream...
Hi every1, Over the years my program has been offering both an in-class, paper- based modality and an online scheme. To many of my students having to read many...
Where are these new reading level tables available? Also where can one get the new Eigo Kanzen Bookguide and how much is it? Why dont they put it online for...
... At the URL Akio Furukawa included in his post http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/word_count/YL-20070621.html ... When I buy my new edition at the end of July, I'll...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jun 26, 2007 1:23 am
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Thanks a lot Julian! John Paul Loucky jploucky@mx <mailto:jploucky@...> <mailto:loucky@...> 22.tiki.ne.jp Check out our Virtual...
Next Friday is the 50th aniversary of when John Lennon met Paul McCartney. As a (mild!) Beatles obsessive I have marked the occasion with a new section on my...
Dave is quite right in pointing out that despite the familiar background knowledge one may be able to tap into from using translated L1 Lit, there may yet...
Here's the link to an interesting program from USF, called Lit2Go: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ I ran across it at the ITunes Store today while browsing the...
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