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