Hello all. Our new Teacher Training course got off to a chaotic start today. One of the surprises was that one of our trainers has to teach our students a new...
Hi Urgetoo, I would recommend that you read AKio Furukawa's article: http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/information/SSSER-2006.htm The Start with Simple Stories (SSS)...
I recently was given videos of the Oxford Day in Seoul last year. Dr. Richard Day absolutely negated "book reports" during his presentation. He called them...
First of all, I think it is great that you getting the teachers to try extensive reading. I've done the same thing in my own teacher training experiences, and...
Summaries are important and useful, but as suggested by Scott they are probably not so well-suited for ER. If used, however, you have to take a comprehension...
I'd just like to add a couple of things to Scott's description of individual conferences with students after they've read one or more books. These (yes,...
Julian Bamford
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Sep 10, 2008 3:19 am
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I have a small problem. I gave an EPER test to a (very) small class of third-year College of English students. Three of them scored 10 to 14 points, while the...
Rocky, As I'm sure you are aware, it would be impossible for the students who scored around 10 on the EPER test to do any reading on their own. My advice is to...
Hi Rocky and all. There is a site called "digital ehon" at http://www.e-hon.jp/ ("e-hon" is picture book in Japanese. It has folk tales in English and a bunch...
Dear Rocky, I have a similar problem on my Japanese university students. I don't know about Korean students, but as for Japanese students in general, they are...
Atsuko Takase
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Sep 17, 2008 3:18 pm
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Hi, every one, We opened the website which you can see the word count and YL (SSS reading level) of each book of each series. ...
Dear All, Having badgered EFL publishers for many years to promote their EFL material for use with native speakers who have learning difficulties, I have ...
Dear colleagues I am Epiphane From Benin. I am researching on Extensive reading with low proficient reader. here in Benin, there is no other books students ...
Hi, Scott, YL stands for Yomiyasusa Level, which means reading level for Japanese English learners. It is like RL(Reading Level) in US. YL 0.0 means that the...
Hi Epiphane, ... It sounds an excellent idea. I think you'll need to use material that the students find easy to read, and material that the students are ...
Julian Bamford
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Sep 19, 2008 9:26 am
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I have prepared a few materials at this level for my site and so has Jeremy Taylor - you can browse from here: http://younglearners.eslreading.org. As the...
Hi again Epiphane, You're planning to set up an ER program with students who can't pronounce the words they read. I suggested reading aloud or playing audio...
Julian Bamford
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Sep 22, 2008 2:53 am
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Daer Julian  Thanks for your great help, I'll have a look at the links on the extensive reading page.  So long  Epiphane Benin ... De: Julian Bamford...
I am interested to know if anyone has a reference for any updated / modified version of the VKS (Paribakht and Wesche). I have had mentioned a modified version...
I did find this version/adaption of VKS Horst and Meara (1999) and Horst (2000) devised the following ratings-only version, which was suitable for adaptation...
Hi Personaly I have great problems with it in all its shapes and forms. Firstly it treats vocab growth as linear when patently it's not. Secondly it reduces...
Hi Personaly I have great problems with it in all its shapes and forms. Firstly it treats vocab growth as linear when patently it's not. Secondly it reduces...
Thanks for your comments re VKR. I am looking for a means to pre/post test vocab with an R+/free reading type of programme. SRT is very interesting but as...
Hi, Â I think that deciding whether to use that scale or not depends on what you exactly expect to determine. I guess you want to use it as a pre test before...
So RU guys using VKR instead of VKS, just out of a preference for Rating vs linear nature implied by a Scale? SRT=? Finally, if it's all S self-reported, what...
I had never heard of VKR before but use something similar with my students. I give them a sheet on which there are 4 boxes: 1. I haven't seen this word before...
The problems I have with this is that it is supposed to be linear when vocab knowledge is not linear. You can have 'seen' the word before but still not 'work...
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