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...
I have had some luck using Mary Glasgow magazines. They have a half dozen levels and they come out once every two months or so, making them reasonably current....
Congratulations on your problem. Amazon.co.jp carries a lot of manga in English. Search for English manga or Shonen Jump. Another idea is DVDs of films/TV...
Hi Ron, Have you tried Barrington Stoke's books for young native dyslexic readers? http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/ If you already have multiple copies of all...
Hello, everyone. I applied to start an ER Special Interest Group for JALT and we have been accepted. The SIG will look at ER issues specifically for those in...
JALT 2007 ER Colloquium at the JALT International Conference October 31st - November 3rd  Tokyo 25 minute presentations on recent research / innovations...
I have just posted two extensively revised versions of these stories on http://www.eslreading.org/index.html They are in PDF format and come with an...
Just curious, it doesn't seem as though e.books are going to put book publishers out of business. What could/should be done to make e.books more popular? They...
TESOL 2008 in New York City April 2-5, 2008 I've found the following ER-related sessions in the itinerary planner. Please let me know if you know of others,...
Considering that there are many classic books no longer protected by copyright (see the Project Gutenberg site), there is no reason why teachers cannot make...