Happy New Year everyone! I'd like announce the MoodleReader Module for Extensive Reading which allows students to take quizzes on the graded readers and other...
Sure.. Use "readerlook" for both the username and password. http://moodlereader.org/moodle I'll get to your other emails a bit later! Cheers, Tom ... -- ...
Sorry, everyone. I replied to the entire list rather than privately with the password to the Moodle reader site, so I've change it. If you are interested in...
Happy New Year to you all I have been working hard over Christmas to try and make my site more interesting and accessible to visitors. Thanks to the wonders of...
Has anyone seen Project X produced by OUP? It is a new series aimed at getting boys who don't like reading - to read. It got mixed reviews on Radio 4 this...
Hi Jeremy I think TEFL readers and reluctant readers have many things in common, particularly as those two groups share the following characteristics. -slow...
Over the last year I introduced ER with a year 12 (17 - 18 yr olds) in a normal local Chinese secondary school class in HK. I did not set it up as a research...
Some thoughts about Grant's post on ER uptake failure For a period of about 2 years I did ER with my classes in my university when the only access the students...
“My conclusion is that most students do not continue to do extensive reading for the same reason that I often fail to follow my exercise plan of waking up at...
Hi Rob, The new website looks great. It is really useful. Thanks for mentioning the JALT ER SIG's journal Extensive Reading in Japan (ERJ). You mentioned you...
I use a wide variety of readers with my ESL learners in Canada. Most of the Beginner books are graded readers because of the strictly controlled vocabulary....
I have recently come across Wordle and think it is a great (free) resource and can be exploited to whet the appetite of students before they read a reader. I...
Hi everyone, The ER Special Interest Group of the Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT ER SIG) is co-sponsoring the Pan-SIG conference this year. We...
Hi everyone, This is only tangentially related to extensive reading... I've got two old but hard-to-find books on learner dictionaries that I no longer need....
Julian Bamford
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Jan 13, 2009 2:14 am
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Take a look at all the Online Reading Labs and texts on the R-Reading page of my site. Links include Graded Readers, and a whole lot more. Enjoy using with...
Sorry to switch the topic like this, but a colleague and I are working on YahooGroups and two questions arose that I'd like two discuss with you: 1) You are a...
Thank you for your mail. I'm very sorry but I already sent the books to someone else....
Julian Bamford
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Jan 27, 2009 2:10 am
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Sorry everyone. I just sent a mail to this list by mistake--it was supposed to be just to the person concerned. Apologies--I'll be more careful in future. ...
Julian Bamford
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Jan 27, 2009 2:12 am
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Hi everyone, I've been giving my students the chance to do ER in class (short magazine texts students select from a pile I take the classroms and workshhet to...
I would say that ER is ER no matter where/how it is done. But you didn't give the reasons that your students gave for preferring online reading as well as the...
You can find some interesting information about children and IT here: http://boora.ca/blog/?p=2317 # Most children (91%) used a computer or laptop to access...
Thanks for this piece of Info Dave. I wasn't aware of it. Â Juan ... From: dk <davekees1@...> Subject: RE: [ExtensiveReading] Extensive yes, but better...
I was talking to one of the bosses of a big e.book company and he told me the e.book bestsellers are romantic fiction, bought by receptionists who need to look...
Hi everyone, David’s data on children using computers in the UK is interesting, but I suspect it will be different for different countries. (Not least...
Hi everyone Does anyone know about any web page link to get learners to practice reading while helping them to speed up their reading? I heard that using a...
Hi, A few weeks back there was a brief discussion on whether or not people continue with reading after participating in an ER program. It took me some time to...
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