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...
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wediger
Jul 1, 2007 9:56 pm
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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gradedreading
Jul 4, 2007 5:43 pm
... find it ... devised ... employ ... I have been revamping my site and The Beatles page can now be found here: http:// ...
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Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jul 12, 2007 1:34 am
Hi everyone, This is a reminder that voting closes on Friday, July 20 for the Extensive Reading Foundation's 2007 Language Learner Literature Award. I teach...
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Kazuko Ikeda
kakoikedavega
Jul 14, 2007 8:06 am
Hi, My students also have finished reading the three finalists books (adults, beginner) and voted last week. Yes. They all excited and enjoyed the whole ...
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pearl wong
namie78uk
Jul 14, 2007 8:36 am
Hi all, My students have also finished reading the three finalists books for the Young Learners category. IT was conducted as a class project with students...
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Pat Barrett
sa9wda
Jul 20, 2007 8:43 pm
Despite some people not liking it, I am sending this to all the fl educator lists I am on. My apologies to those outside the U.S. who are not affected by our...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Jul 24, 2007 4:34 am
Hello all, If anyone wishes to send a message such as the one below would they please contact me first. The following message is inappropriate for this list...
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Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Aug 1, 2007 7:43 am
Hi everyone, Back in June, I wrote on this list about a new edition of a Japanese guide that lists (in English) 12,000 titles suitable for English ...
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graham paterson
guggzie
Aug 1, 2007 11:31 am
A follow up from Julian's post to advise anyone interested that a new set of books have recently been published in Beijing. This is a very good series written...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Aug 2, 2007 8:33 am
Thanks Graham, Do you know of a link to an online catalogue so i can add it to my list of ER publishers? Do you know the exact name of the publisher because...
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graham paterson
guggzie
Aug 2, 2007 9:09 am
Hi Rob, The publisher is Foreign Languages Press but I don't have any other details. The Editor is Cai Qing at caiqing2620@... I will forward your...
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Clarissa C. S. Ryan
wintersweetsbc
Aug 14, 2007 5:43 am
Hi-- I'm teaching a GRE preparation class at an IEP in California. The last quarter or two, I've had some students who are nowhere near being able to pass the ...
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Lynn Ellingwood
lynnellingwood
Aug 15, 2007 3:12 am
What is an IEP? In New York, it means Individualized Education Plan for Special Education students and that is not what you mean! The GRE is for graduate...
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scottmiles67
Aug 15, 2007 6:15 am
Hello everyone, I am preparing an article on TOEIC and extensive reading and there are some JALT articles on the subject that I am unable to access without ...
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Clarissa C. S. Ryan
wintersweetsbc
Aug 15, 2007 5:14 pm
... you >mean! Sorry, it's an Intensive English Program. Some of the students are taking time off from their home universities, while others have already...
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dk
davkees
Aug 18, 2007 12:08 am
Maybe it's time for English readers to go mobile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mobile novels outsell paper books in Japan Fiction now read on a phone...
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Justin Victor
dxneurosynth
Aug 21, 2007 7:09 am
Hey, I think this will be really useful for us! Add me when you're in. - Justin Learn the language of your choice from people who can naturally speak it. ...
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Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Aug 31, 2007 3:26 am
Today, the Extensive Reading Foundation, an unaffiliated, not-for profit organization that supports and promotes extensive reading in language education,...
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Abdulkarim Al-Nujaidi
anujaidi
Aug 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Sorry for the late reply. But being a non-native speaker who had to take the GRE, I believe that the GRE verbal section is designed to test native graduate...
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scottmiles67
Sep 20, 2007 2:35 am
I have a question about the justification for explicitly teaching reading comprehension skills. Is there any research that supports this practice? I found the...
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john callahan
bellpawt2003
Sep 20, 2007 7:17 am
Teaching comprehension skills ????.People can comprehend well enough.!!TThe problem is that here is no common assessment of comprehension so that extensive...
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Fiona M
fiotf
Sep 20, 2007 8:29 am
Hello, I'm a long-standing lurker, so I feel a bit cheeky about posting, but here goes. Do you really think ALL people comprehend well enough? I would think...
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Rob Waring
waring_robert
Sep 20, 2007 10:47 am
Hi I think the question can be seen too much in black and white (i.e. do, we, don't we teach XYZ?). There is certainly a case for teaching some aspects of the...
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john callahan
bellpawt2003
Sep 20, 2007 10:48 am
Thanks for your response .I see have been talking above your processing level so I will try to simplify it a li`l fir you . ! .All people who want to learn...
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etjmari
Sep 20, 2007 11:14 am
Dear John, You wrote: To develop omprehension all you have to do is find where the learner reads with authority and expression -where metacognition is taking...
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tom mccarthy
unavailable_...
Sep 20, 2007 2:23 pm
Does anyone know the history of teaching reading skills? When did this format of teaching develop? What sort of methods were used previously. (I'm sure Frank...
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Fiona
fiotf
Sep 20, 2007 5:20 pm
... processing level so I will try to simplify it a li`l fir you . Thanks for that. I'm sure I needed it. So what/how we were taught in the sixties was right...
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john callahan
bellpawt2003
Sep 20, 2007 9:10 pm
Dear Mari , Metacognition is actively interpreting and constructing meaning . In other words it is what everyone else calls reading . re : Reading with...
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john callahan
bellpawt2003
Sep 20, 2007 9:16 pm
Hi Fiona , I know nothing about how the profoundly deaf process text ...and you have started another line of enquiry for me which will probably entail months...
