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.
'Extensive Reading and the Language Teacher' by Alan Maley
26 January 2009 - 8:37am — adminAs teachers, we often urge’ them’, our students, to engage in Extensive Reading(ER) as an effective way to develop and sustain their progress in the language. But how about ‘us’? Sure
'Extensive Reading and the Foreign Language Learner' by Alan Maley
7 January 2009 - 6:01am — adminSo what are we to understand by Extensive Reading (ER)? There seems to be a broad consensus that the following criteria have to be met, though not everyone would subscribe to every single one of them:
What kind of ER feedback do you require from your students?
22 December 2008 - 12:34am — adminRecent blog posts
- MoodleReader reaches 1000 quizzes!
- An effective 'Readability Index'?
- Discuss Extensive Reading at Harrogate Online
- The ERF Language Learner Literature Award Finalist Evaluation Program for 2010
- The MoodleReader Software for Tracking Student Reading
- Annotated Bibliography of Works on Extensive Reading in a Second Language now on the ERF site!
- Reading About Reading
- Discussing Extensive Reading at Cardiff Online
- The Power of Reading
- Our first poll
