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.
The Extensive Reading Foundation reports that their First Extensive Reading World Congress, held from 3 September to 6 September at Kyoto Sangyo University has been an overwhelming success with more than 400 participants from 20 countries around the world. Participants hailed from the U.K., the U.S., Canada & Mexico, from the Middle East and virtually every country in South and Eastern Asia.
The guide introduces Extensive Reading and :
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I wish to draw the attention to a new series of ELT graded readers, published by ELI Publishing Ltd, in which illustrations aim at being more than just a didactic accompaniment to the text and become true pictures to help readers catch the aesthetical and emotional atmosphere of the stories.