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 gap between graded readers and unsimplified text

13 August 2008 - 3:51pm — Paul Nation

This is a current research interest of mine. By my best calcualtions there is a gap of around 5,000-6,000 words between the demands of unsimplified text and the endpoint of graded readers. Graded readers end around the 3,000 word level and unsimplified text requires a vocabulary size of around 8,000 words to get 98% coverage.

 

Welcome to the ERF Website

12 August 2008 - 1:35pm — trobb

As co-webmaster of the Extensive Reading Foundation site, I would like to welcome you.  This site has been newly designed with the aim of making it more interactive so that other users of the Extensive Reading approach may share their materials and ideas and make any materials that they might have available to a larger audience. -- Tom Robb

Richard Day on Extensive Reading

Dr. Richard Day discussing Extensive Reading at Zhonghua University, Taiwan.

 

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