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.

How frequently do you use graded readers with your students?

20 August 2008 - 2:49pm — admin
Quite often
62% (8 votes)
Sometimes
23% (3 votes)
Not very often
8% (1 vote)
Never
8% (1 vote)
Total votes: 13

Extending extensive reading to teachers

14 August 2008 - 7:51pm — Chris Lima

When we talk about  Extensive Reading our major focus is always on the learner, as we firmly believe it can promote literacy and language improvement. So far so good, but it seems to me that we are unliley to succeed in motivating students to read if their teachers don't do it themselves.

Why Extensive Reading should be an indispensable part of all language programs

13 August 2008 - 6:13pm — admin

Rob Waring
Notre Dame Seishin University
Okayama, Japan

Abstract

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