Bringing extensive reading into the classroom
Richard Day
Into the Classroom
Extensive reading brings substantial benefits to language learning. Find out about the importance of extensive free reading, how to develop extensive reading materials, choosing the right graded readers for your class, exploiting class readers, developing class libraries, and setting up and running reading circles.
Bringing Extensive Reading Into the Classroom
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Notes on contributors
Richard Day is Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii. He is co-editor of the journal, Reading in a Foreign Language, and chairman of the Extensive Reading Foundation. His recent publications include Cover to Cover 1–3 (OUP 2009). Dr Day is engaged in a study of the effects of timed-repeated reading on fluency and comprehension.
Jennifer Bassett is the series editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library. For over twenty years she has been writing, editing, and thinking about stories for English language learners. Her publications include about forty original and retold graded readers. Her abiding interests are storytelling within a reduced code, and searching for good stories from every corner of the world.
Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter are freelance ELT authors and teacher trainers based in Alicante, Spain. Since 2000 they have edited the Dominoes series for Oxford University Press. Their other publications include New Headway Pronunciation Pre-Intermediate (OUP 2002), and Happy Earth new edition (OUP 2009). Their current interests are reader-based drama activities and intensive skills work tasks using graded reader extracts.
Mark Furr has taught in Armenia