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"...
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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...
Happy New Year! I just received some new books from Oxford University Press this week. I was wondering if you could supply me with the YL and Number of Words....
Hi This is FURUKAWA writing. You can look up index from p452 of TADOKU KANZEN GUIDE. (Series and Authors are listed there.) Then you can see$B!!(B UP AND AWY...
Perhaps you are not aware of the international teacher's list, TESL-L. There are 30,000+ teachers on this list and the discussion is wide ranging over all...
Dear Ann, Here are the word counts of Classic Tales. 9780194225526 The Prince and the Pea YL 0.6 Word count 675 9780194225519 Lowne Mend the Sky YL 0.6 Word...
The latest innovation is the mobile novel. It is becoming an extremely useful way for people to read while out and about in their daily lives. When do you...
Hi everyone, I am back in my driver's seat. I take 100 photocopied text to a classroom, students read and fill a form they download from a yahoogrop. Students...
Very interesting point Dave. Certainly technology affects the way knowledge is transferred and construed and that of course involves language. This phrase is...
All of my students have mobile phones and use them constantly. Not all have computers and even the ones who do have them don't use them constantly. So, where...
This is too much for me. I prefer my "old fashion way" ER. Juan ... all ... Mayora ... used ... needs ... can ... before ... longer ... but it ... Try...
Hi all, I agree with Juan in that it is too much for me but I just did a rough sampling with a class of 36 Japanese students who do ER using graded readers...
Hi I might chip in here. Richard didn;t mention but in Japan the cell phone screens are quite large compared to those in many countries and that might indicate...
I have always been an extensive reader. When I traveled my backpack was weighed down with paperbacks. I feel "liberated" from the "printed word" now that I use...
Reading has effectively eliminated all of my commuting time to the various locations where I teach English. Now I get on a bus or in a taxi and pull out my...
The "easiest" way to get E-books is through the Usenet/Netnews network. Serve Yourself Some News Discover The Untapped Resources Of Newsgroups As the line...
Hi all. I have a problem. A wonderful problem, actually. I'm wondering if anyone out there could help me: I have -- suddenly -- been given a rather generous...
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