The Extensive Reading Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable organization whose purpose is to support and promote extensive reading. One Foundation initiative is the annual Language Learner Literature Award for the best new works in English.  Another is maintaining a bibliography of research on extensive reading.  The Foundation is also interested in helping educational institutions set up extensive reading programs through grants that fund the purchase of books and other reading material.

Meet our Board of Directors - Jayakaran Mukundan

16 May 2010 - 4:23am — admin

The ERF has in its Board of Directors well-known educators, writers and academics who work in different countries around the world and who, along with their other professional activites, are committed to promote Extensive Reading among English language learners and teachers.

Meet our Board of Directors - Sue Leather

21 April 2010 - 5:54am — admin

The ERF has in its Board of Directors well-known educators, writers and academics who work in different countries around the world and who, along with their other professional activites, are committed to promote Extensive Reading among English language learners and teachers.

Preparing Reading Schemes

14 April 2010 - 12:55am — admin

Peter Viney, also a member of our Board of Directors, has kindly shared with us his article on reading schemes written for READ, the magazine of the TESOL Arabia SIG and published in Issue 10 for the TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai. You can access the unedited version visiting his blog at

http://peterviney.wordpress.com/elt-articles/preparing-reading-schemes/

Thanks Peter!

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