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 ...
Julian Bamford
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Aug 1, 2007 7:43 am
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
... 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...
Maybe it's time for English readers to go mobile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mobile novels outsell paper books in Japan Fiction now read on a phone...
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. ...
Today, the Extensive Reading Foundation, an unaffiliated, not-for profit organization that supports and promotes extensive reading in language education,...
Julian Bamford
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Aug 31, 2007 3:26 am
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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...
I have a question about the justification for explicitly teaching reading comprehension skills. Is there any research that supports this practice? I found the...
Teaching comprehension skills ????.People can comprehend well enough.!!TThe problem is that here is no common assessment of comprehension so that extensive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
Dear Mari , Metacognition is actively interpreting and constructing meaning . In other words it is what everyone else calls reading . re : Reading with...
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...
Thanks for all the replies thus far to my question about the value of teaching reading comprehension skills and strategies. I have little doubt that teaching...
Dear John, Thanks for your reply. I had never thought that metacognition equates 'reading.' My understanding was that metacognition is not skill-specific. It ...
Hi all, I have taken on the challenge of designing a curriculum-wide reading course for my university. I was able, a few years ago, to get a library of 1,000...
Hi, all I hope that John Callahan can expand on his response to Scott Miles' request for research data on explicit teaching. I didn't get what he was driving...
Dear John, Thanks for the clarification. I am glad to know that what you described matches with the result of my action research on a reading program for YLs. ...
This discussion reminds me of a Russian friend I had when I was living in St.Petersburg. He was a university student and his subject was nuclear chemistry. One...
I guess China may be like Spain, but no idea really. Most of the coursebooks here teach "reading skills" which aren't actually reading skills at all (certainly...
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