Comments on: What is Extensive Reading?

By: Waleed

Waleed — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:34:41 +0000

hi MR. writer,

Firstly I would like to thank you, because you learned us alot in these your information.

Today, at the university in methodology course, we discussed these types of reading and consecuantly we intrested with them, so I decided to open this site in order to show at extra information about this topic.

thank you very much,,,

Waleed
Al-Azhar University of Gaza

By: Beatrice Somuah

Beatrice Somuah — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:00:54 +0000

I have found your article really interesting. I will like to know more about extensive reading in relation to how it helps pupils improve their learning of other subjects. Thank you very much and kindly send me materials on extensive reading if available.

By: Xochitl

Xochitl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:44:56 +0000

Hello, there !

I have found your wording very easy to read
I just wanted to let you know I have been reading your language learning category, I’m studying to become a language teacher, and I have no experience, but I’m fascinated about everything I learn daily.

Have a lovely day,
and thank you for sharing your ideas.

-Xochitl

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:31:05 +0000

One nice thing about being a boss is that I can actually flunk the students who can’t keep up.

In general, though, extensive reading encourages students to choose their own texts. Ideally, weaker students would be allowed to read easy texts for as long as they like.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:35:47 +0000

I’ve just been turned on to this strategy and I’m quite curious. How would you be able to do this in a class of quite varied skill levels? I would imagine that it would be a bit of trial and error matching students to texts which could take a few days. Also, how do you evaluate? I would think that constant testing would undermine the goal of promoting reading for pleasure.

Anyway, I’m going to pursue some of the links you provide and I appreciate your article as it is a clear thus useful introduction.

By: pie

pie — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:52:33 +0000

thank so much for this information.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:31:27 +0000

Unfortunately, no. There are some extremely limited efforts at translating some ESL ones into Japanese, but CSL lags far, far behind.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:18:05 +0000

Do you know of any extensive readers for traditional Chinese?

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:04:54 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the info and the link.

Cheers,
Erik

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:56:40 +0000

Erik, my name is Mark Wilbur. I’m sure you could find a better reference than my page, though!

That Bamford & Day book I mentioned is great. For online sources, http://www.sdkrashen.com/ is a good place to start.