We are going to hold workshops for English Education through Extensive Reading in Tokyo and Osaka for Japanese Teachers. Tokyo November 17, 2002 SEG (Shinjuku)...
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Eper Enquiries
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Sep 6, 2002 9:34 am
Excellent idea. Good luck and best wishes. David R Hill EPER (Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading) IALS (Institute for Applied Language Studies) University...
A couple of questions, 1. Is anyone on this list using the tests available from EPER for placement or assessing progress? If so, could you please let me know...
Yes. Three books (one at each level) hardly makes a series. And nothing new has come from it for years, so I think it's kind of dead. ... -- Brett Reynolds ...
Hi Mathew, I can comment briefly on question #1 ... My colleagues and I have been using the EPER test for placement and assessment purposes for three years. We...
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Clive Lovelock
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Sep 16, 2002 6:29 am
Dear Mathew ... In my programme at Tezukayama Gakuin Univ. for 1st and 2nd year students, we use both the Placement Tests (at the beginning of each year) and...
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Rob Waring
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Sep 17, 2002 12:09 am
About the EPER-style tests I think these kinds of tests are OK as a predictor - as very rough guide. But they are assessing a special kind of vocabulary...
I used the EPER Placement test (the long version because some of my students were quite advanced)for a couple of years and found it to be quite reliable in...
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Clive Lovelock
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Sep 18, 2002 4:44 am
Rob Good to read one of your perceptive contributions to this list again. They seem to have tailed off since the veritable meteor shower of postings from you...
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Rob Waring
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Sep 18, 2002 5:31 am
Clive and all ... Yes agreed. The problem I have (with my 'testing' hat on here) is that it is a rough relationship between vocab and fluency. Are we supposed...
Rob Waring (who most of us know since he is active on this list) is interviewed at eltnew.com this month. Thought you would want to know about it. The URL is:...
The books you mention sound interesting. Could you please send enough information on the author/publisher of the 3 books in the series so that I might also be...
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Julian Bamford
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Sep 24, 2002 5:54 am
... Don't know what's happening, but this address works: http://www.ials.ed.ac.uk/eper.html...
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Julian Bamford
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Sep 24, 2002 6:08 am
Rory--I gave the information about these three Japanese "Characters" books on this list on June 25, so I'm resending that mail to you offlist. Best, Julian...
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David Hill
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Sep 25, 2002 9:10 am
Thanks, Julian. David David R Hill EPER (Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading) IALS (Institute for Applied Language Studies) University of Edinburgh, 21 Hill...
The "Extensive Reading Pages" has a new URL: http://www.extensivereading.net/ Could you please change it in any links that you have set up on your web pages?...
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Hassan Alshamrani
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Sep 25, 2002 8:32 pm
Dear ER colleagues, I am conducting a study about the beliefs and attitudes of second language students regarding vocabulary learning through extensive...
Now I am teaching ER in one of the most famous English training school in China. It's a little bit hard for the beginning. So I thought it might be good to...
Now I am teaching ER in one of the most famous English training school in China. It's a little bit hard for the beginning. So I thought it might be good to...
Hi extensive reading advocates! My name is Frank Christensen and I will tell you a little about myself and what I am doing. I was a Chicago Public Schools...
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george jacobs
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Oct 16, 2002 12:30 pm
Dear Frank Greetings from a 1982 graduate of U of Illinois-Chicago's MA in TESOL program. Regards to the profs there. As to your question, I'm not so hung up...
... Ż A couple years ago, I had a student who wanted to do her B.A. thesis on Frankenstein. Her lit. professor suggested she read it in translation "so she...
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Beniko Mason
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Oct 17, 2002 6:55 am
Dear Frank, I believe that learners must understand 99% (i+1) or even 100%ii-1) of the text for language development. Especially for those who have not done...
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Clive Lovelock
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Oct 19, 2002 2:15 am
Hi Frank You've presumably already read the good advice from George, Marc and Beniko. I don't really have much to add to what they've said, except to underline...
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Rob Waring
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Oct 19, 2002 3:05 am
Beniko said ... I often use this analogy, but it is a bit fraught with problems / potential misunderstandings. If 'i-1' is 100% and 'i+1' is 99%, what % is...
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Clive Lovelock
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Oct 19, 2002 5:29 am
... I often wonder how the originator (who was it - Krashen?) of the 99% comprehension idea arrived at this figure. Michael West, in 1955 suggested a suitable...
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Rob Waring
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Oct 19, 2002 6:18 am
... I don't know if anyone did consciously propose it as a concrete figure. I certainly (and I'm assuming here Beniko too) use the 99% to illustrate that we...
Hi Everyone I am new to your list. I teach English in Tijuana Mexico Regarding i+1 and Krashen. I believe Krashen“s theory is Compressible Input. If the...
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Beniko Mason
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Oct 19, 2002 7:28 pm
Marcus, I think that Rob and Clive know that I meant CI when I mentioned i+1 and i-1. Yes, CI is the most important thing for language acquistion. Extensive...
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Clive Lovelock
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Oct 22, 2002 12:52 am
Dear Marcus & Rob (Rob, first). Thanx for the clarification. Frankly I take people much more seriously if they're up-front about when they're using figures ...
