Thanks From: ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ExtensiveReading@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Dykes Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:08 AM To:...
Can I please ask all members NOT to post copyrighted material or links to copyrighted material on this list. The email below has been deleted from the ...
Very sorry about posting sample scans of 3 readers. I thought I was replying to a query off group - didn't realise I was posting publicly. (Postings come to...
Dear Mr. Grant: Thank you for this unintended mistake as it serves my purpose in trying tools to assess reading extensively and/ or intensinvely. I want to ask...
Dear All, I am planning a competition for writing graded readers, based on "handcrafted books" (Dupuy and McQuillan, 1997 cited in Krashen, 2004, Explorations...
... It's time to update my website. Woudl you please let me know of any more ER associations / groups that you know of. Here are some I know that come to...
Mark, Â Our adult ESL students - intermediate and advanced -Â just completed a series of "Chicken Soup" stories from their own experiences. We copied and...
Dear Mark and dear group members: I actually agree with what Warren says. Then comes the question " What is the goal of this activity?" Are you trying to help...
Hi Warren and Mohamed, Thanks for the emails. The main motivation is to get students to contribute stories and fill the shortage of literature at the right...
Hi everyone, I'm clearing out my office and have a lot of older books and materials on reading that I no longer need. (Many have highlighting or annotation.)...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jun 3, 2009 8:10 am
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Thank you Julian Really all topics are appealing. May be I am the earliest to respond yet the least expected to be able to obtain them due to my living in...
Mark (and others), Permit me to describe briefly the writing process we use to try to ensure good product and pedagogy. 1. Very early I introduce my students...
Hi again, All the books on the long list I sent yesterday have now been asked for. I said "First come, first served" so the offer is now closed. Next week,...
Julian Bamford
bamford@...
Jun 4, 2009 6:18 am
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Hi, We, Japan Extensive Reading Asscociation , hold an anuual conference in Enlgish on August 22nd 2009 at Toyota National College of Technology. I believe...
Hello everyone, We will run an Extensive Reading Colloquium again at the KOTESOL International Conference (October 24-25). The conference will be held at...
Hi Scott, Thanks for this. Once you get that cost information, could you post it here, please? I'll send it out to all the JALT ER SIG members. Daniel Stewart...
When I was at primary school in New Zealand in the 1960's extensive reading (L1) was something we did in class everyday. I am interested to know if anyone has...
Well, I don't exactly know the answer. But according to West (1964), the first appearance of simplified Readers for language teaching was the *New Method...
Grant, Day and Bamford's Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom (1998) has some history of the term extensive reading on pages 5-6. There it...
This is about reading for native speaking kids but think people on this list (especially North Americans who grew up reading Dr. Seuss) will find it...
Dear Daniel., I tried to pre-register, but all the message I got is "Page not found" at http://sites.google.com/site/jalt2009erconference/goog_1245026765697, ...
Furukawa Sensei, Sorry about that. Alison, our webpage expert, was adding some pictures to the webpage and it was down for ten minutes. I just tried it now...
I love visiting secondhand bookshops and looking for old EFL material and readers in particular. I have a delightful reader from 1920 published by "The English...
Sent to me from Clive (posted with his permission) who has had trouble posting: In my first teaching job (Tanzania 1965~67) we were using New Method readers...
Hi I once was chatting with some historical linguists who told me graded readers (of their day) were quite common several hundred years ago. No idea who...
   Writing in the 1640s-60s, the pioneer Czech educator John Comenius advocated graded reading, learner-centred pedagogy. One of his core pedagogical...
I agree on the impact of some of Comenius' ideas on present-day education. I would like to point out that one of the pivotal EU lifelong learning programmes is...
Apologies to the group if you're reading this. Please ignore this message. It's just to test my link with the group, which appears to be broken. Thanks Rob. ...
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