Extensive Reading
Reading
... Reading is no
different from other learned human abilities such as
driving, cooking, playing golf, or riding a bicycle:
the more you do it, the more fluent and skilful you
become...'
Julian
Bamford (Bunkyo
University)
Richard R. Day (University
of Hawaii)
A guide to the theory of Extensive Reading (and how it
can help your students) can be found on the
Extensive Reading
site. There are also
excellent resources at the Extensive Reading
Foundation, which awards an annual
prize for the best reader published in that year.
Rocky Nelson of Busan
University, South Korea devised the following
course outline for
teaching Extensive Reading
Some excellent work on the
readability of ELT readers has been done by the SSS ER
Study group in Japan. A full database of their findings
on individual titles can be found at
http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/shohyou/word-count.html.
Groups
The
Extensive Reading Group
is an
excellent place to exchange ideas about learning
English through Extensive Reading.
The EFL & ESL Reading
Group
- students and teachers share ideas about good reading materials
If you have ideas/materials/course outlines. you would like to share with other teachers, please send them here contact