I just re(ordered) versions A and B of the EPER Placement/Progress test only to have the missing ones show up! They cost 40 pounds each (80 pounds total, or...
Hi all A couple of points based on my personal experience: a) Some children take more easily to formal teaching of phonics than a more discovery- based...
Hi all, I have a couple of questions and I apologize if they are a little outside the scope of the original thread. I'd appreciate anybody's answers and...
I think this discussion has gotten too broad. Are we talking about teaching beginners or children? People will disabilities? Comprehension as in understanding...
Carlos: "As far as my knowledge goes, Krashen has not pointed out that i+1 will result in the development of inferencing skills, monitoring of comprehension,...
Carlos, you recommended we read "Developing reading comprehension questions"[1]. I'm wondering about this statement in the paper: "In the last several decades,...
Hi Dave, I certainly think that good readers have literal comprehension skills, reorganization skills, inference skills, prediction skills, evaluation skills,...
Carlos, "Skill based courses at pre-university and university levels have been the answers and the results, though not excellent, are promising." Can you share...
Do Extenisve Reading List members have recommendations for movies that have scripts that are 'graded' in the sense that they are failry easy to understand even...
"Do Extenisve Reading List members have recommendations for movies that have scripts that are 'graded' in the sense that they are failry easy to understand...
"Big": I've used it successfully. It has a lot of emotional content which can generate some discussion. I'd like to add a Vincent Price movie. "The Fly". Not...
Dear Dave, Two movies I use most successfully are Shrek 1 and 2. They are a great way of using fairy stories as an introduction in class and then comparing...
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Oct 17, 2007 1:11 pm
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Thanks for the reply. We agree with you and hope Kathy wishes to continue at SHC. She seems generally happy with SHC, so I don't think it will be impossible. ...
I use movies to supplement my content based instruction classes. In the terrorism unit we watched Munich. Boys Don't Cry was great as party of gender studies....
Drews Scriptorama may still be the biggest repository of movie script. It may also be illegal http://www.script-o-rama.com/oldindex.shtml Here for a list of...
Speaking of scripts... Sometimes actors stray from them. I was using Closed Captions for BIG, but gave up due to the inconsistencies. Caveat emptor. cheers, ...
Good afternoon , I am happy to join this group that I am sure will enhance me with high sophisticated knowledge that i really need in my study . i am an MA...
Dear Reem, Welcome to the group. If you visit the Extensive Reading pages: http://www.extensivereading.net/ and click on "Model Programs" "Materials for ER"...
Julian Bamford
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Nov 15, 2007 12:15 am
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Someone sent me this today: www.freerice.com It gives vocab MCQs, adjusted according to how well people did on the last item; so, it could work for ESL...
I did that, it went on for hours it seemed until I got bored. The bad part is that there doesn't seem to be a reasonable ending and the words are pretty hard....
Dear members, I wrote an article on ER for the Daily yomiuri and it is going to appear on Thursday, November 29. If you live in Japan, please buy one and look...
Hi all Just to let you know that I've given my site a big revamp and a new address: http://www.eslreading.org I've also divided the special interest sections...
Hi everyone, Just a few lines to wish you all merry christmas and happy new year. 2007 was a good year for the group with new, nice people joining in. My very...
Dear group members, I am an author whose books are used in many school programs to encourage children to express themselves through writing. I have launched a...
Dear William, I think the webpage you designed (www.makebeliefscomix.com) is awesome for language teaching. Thank you very much. I will be definitely use it in...
Dear group, Last year, when we first launched our storytelling comic strip generator -- www.MakeBeliefsComix.com -- you were among the first to give us your...
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