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10.extensive Reading (1) (ESL)
10.extensive Reading (1) (ESL)
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The texts are not just interesting: they are engaging/ compelling.
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The teacher explains the goals and procedures clearly, then monitors and guides the
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The teacher is a role modela reader, who participates along with the students.
The model is very much like that for L1 reading proposed by Atwell (2006).
It has been variously described as Free Voluntary Reading (FEVER),
Uninterrupted Silent Reading (USR), Sustained Silent Reading (SSR), Drop
Everything and Read (DEAR), or Positive Outcomes While Enjoying
Reading (POWER).
So what are the benefits of ER?
Both common sense observation and copious research evidence bear out
the many benefits which come from ER (Waring 2000, 2006). There are
useful summaries of the evidence in Day and Bamford (1998: 32-39) and
The Special Issue of The Language Teacher (1997) including articles by
Paul Nation and others, and passionate advocacy in Krashens The Power
of Reading. (2004). The journals Reading in a Foreign Language and the
different books. This gives us a rich mental yeast which we can use to
interact with others, while still retaining our individual take on the texts
and the world.
So Extensive Reading has a lot to offer - both for our students and
ourselves Read on!.
References.
Atwell, Nancie. (2006) The Reading Zone: how to help kids become skilled, passionate,
habitual, critical readers. New York: Scholastic
Bamford, Julian and Richard Day. (2004) Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching
Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Day, Richard, R. (2002) Top Ten Principles for teaching extensive reading. Reading in a
Foreign Language. 14 (2)
Day, Richard, R , Omura, Carole, Hiramatsu, Motoo. (1991) Incidental EFL vocabulary
learning and reading. Reading in a Foreign Language. 7 (2)
Day, Richard, R and Bamford, Julian.(1998) Extensive Reading in the Second Language
Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Elley, W.B (1991) Acquiring literacy in a second language: the effect of book-based
programmes. Language Learning. 41. 375-411
Hafiz, F.M and Tudor, I. (1989) Extensive reading and the development of language skills.
ELT Journal 43 (1) 4-13
Hoey, Michael (1991) Patterns of Lexis in Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, Steven (2006) Everything Bad is Good for You. New York: Riverhead.
Krashen, Stephen (2nd edition. 2004 ) The Power of Reading: insights from the research.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Kroll, Barbara (ed) (2003) Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing.: Chapter
10 Reading and Writing Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Maley, Alan (2008) Extensive Reading: Maid in Waiting in B. Tomlinson (ed) English
Language Learning Materials: a critical review. London/New York: Continuum pp133-156.
Murray, Denise and Pamela McPherson (eds) (2005) Navigating to Read Reading to
Navigate. Teaching in Action (series) Sydney: NCELTR, McQuarie University
Nation, Paul (1997) The language teaching benefits of extensive reading. The Language
Teacher. 21 (5)
Nation, Paul and Wang Ming-Tzu, Karen (1999) Graded readers and vocabulary. Reading in
a Foreign Language. 12 (2)
Pigada, Maria and Norbert Schmitt (2006) Vocabulary acquisition for extensive reading.
Reading in a Foreign Language. 18 (1)
Prowse, P. (2002) Top ten principles for teaching extensive reading: a response. Reading
in a Foreign Language. 14 (2)
Richards, Cameron (2000) Hypermedia, Internet communication and the challenge of redefining literacy in the electronic age. Language Teaching and Technology. 4 (2,) 59-77.
Scmidtt, Ken Lower level Extensive reading Opportunities for Lower-level Learners of
EFL/ESL. on http://tesl-ej.org/ej13/int.html
Waring, Rob (2000) The Why and How of Using Graded Readers. Oxford University Press,
Japan. (free publication accessible on www.oupjapan.co.jp/teachers/tebiki/tebiki.shtml)
Waring, Rob (2006) Why Extensive Reading should be an indispensable part of all
language programmes. The Language Teacher 30 (7): 44-47
Useful Websites
http://www.extensivereading.net/er/biblio2.html
http://www.extensivereading.net/er/whatis.html
http://sdkrashen.com
http://ijflt.com
www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/
http://www.extensivereading.net
www.erfoundation.org
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF
Submitted by Alan Maley on 8 December, 2009 - 14:41 in the British Council Teaching English
Website https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/extensive-reading-why-it-good-our-students
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