Extensive Reading and Listening

Massive language practice

Rob Waring

Notre Dame Seishin University

Welcome one and all to the Extensive Reading and Listening Blog!

I'll be piloting this blog and hope to bring you the latest news and information. I'll also be posting some articles for you to comment on. The topics of future blogs may include:-

* various types of ER / EL
* the use of authentic materials and ER/EL
* recent ER/EL research
* Intensive vs Extensive reading
* ER/EL in languages other than English
* ER/EL and children
* the relationship between early ER and phonics
* the relationship between vocabulary and ER/EL
* a scale of ER
... among others.

If you have a topic you'd like me to discuss that is not above, please leave a comment here.

Also if you have any questions regarding ER/EL I can try to answer them in a future FAQ or question and answer session. Please try to make your questions short and to the point.

As this is the first blog, I thought I'd mention some online resources.

The most important place is the Extensive Reading pages . It has a wealth of materials. There are articles about ER, a huge bibliography on ER and EL related research, information on starting an ER program, and much more.

The Extensive Reading Foundation doesn't have a lot of resources but they contribute greatly to ER/EL by administering the Language Learner Literature Awards which are an annual set of awards for the best graded readers in various categories.

You may also wish to look at my website for things related to Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening.

If you have any other suggestions, don't hesitate to mention them.

If you wish to discuss ER or EL, you can do so by joining the ER discussion list or the EL Discussion list. The subscription email addresses are available at the links.

That's all for now.

See you all next time.

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Hi Rob. Thanks for all the work getting this page together. By pure coincidence, a textbook company salesperson offered us some of your materials yesterday! We are looking to extend our program and have to evaluate all the great choices of abridged readers and new ESL focused readers for younger students. I probably won't post here much because we would probably end up just having a digital group hug in celebration of what we already know - that extensive reading is a powerful motivator for students to become more interested in English. I deviate a little bit from some of the theorists in that I insist students read a certain number of books by certain dates. I then have them do paragraphing exercises in response to prompts I give. This covers writing and reading in one swoop. I teach simple transitional language and have them use two or three new transitions each time they do a paragraphing exercise. The vast majority of Japanese high school students do no paragraphing work, so we feel we are really giving students a leg up. All reading is done outside class and all writing is done in class within a 50 minute period, each time. Anyway, thanks again for looking after this page and let's see what others have to add.

Mark Hunter | May 14, 2009 5:28 PM

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