Video highlights of Forum 1 and 2
Presentation and preliminary analysis
Media Concern
Resources of Extensive Reading
-- Useful Websites
-- Online Reading Journals
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Useful Books
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Relevant Articles
-- Workshop Handouts
-- Powerpoint Presentation
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Video highlights of Forum 1 and 2
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Presentation and preliminary analysis
- Preliminary analysis of questionnaire data (word document)
- Davison's Presentation at ILEC, Dec, 2004 (powerpoint)
Media Concern
- Summary of Chinese newspaper reports on School-based assessment (updated on 5th January, 2005)
Resources of Extensive Reading
(Useful Websites)
- Extensive Reading Pages
It is a very resourceful website which covers issues on extensive reading, contains links to online articles, model programmes, annotated bibliography of works on extensive reading and more.
- Extensive Reading Resources Page
This is a supplementary site to the Extensive Reading Pages. Teachers may be interested to check out the links to online reading materials and action research in extensive reading.
- The George Jacobs Website
It contains suggestions and ideas from teachers who have run extensive reading programmes in their classrooms. Teachers may be interested to check out ideas for after individual reading.
- English Learner Movie Guide
It contains detailed synopses of popular movies, extensive glossary of vocabulary and cultural references, plus questions and ideas for ESL class discussion.
- Simply Scripts
This site contains links to downloadable movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current and classic movies. Teachers could make use of the scripts to conduct pre-viewing or follow up classroom activities (e.g. story prediction, drama on a particular scene, rewriting the storylines, etc.)
Online Reading Journals
- The Internet TESL Journal
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Reading in a Foreign Language
- The Language Teacher Online
Useful Books
- Bamford, J & Day, R. (2004) (Eds.). Extensive reading activities for teaching language. New York : Cambridge University Press.
This book contains over 100 classroom activities contributed by teachers who have used them successfully in their classrooms. Go to this link to check out its contents.
- BDay, R.R., & Bamford, J. (1997). Extensive reading in the second language classroom. New York: Cambridge University Press.
This book highlights the nature of extensive reading and provides useful suggestions on the development of extensive reading programmes in foreign and second language teaching.
- Day, R. (1993) (Ed.). New ways in teaching reading. Alexandria, VA: TESOL
This book is a collection of reading activities and exercises contributed by EFL/ESL teachers. The reading activities in this book cover the following three major divisions: Extensive Reading, Intensive Reading, and Oral Reading.
- George M. Jacobs, Colin Davis & Willy A. Renandya (Eds.). 1997. Successful strategies for extensive reading. Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.
Relevant Articles
- Bell, T (1998, December). Extensive Reading: Why? And how? The Internet TESL Journal, 4(12).
- Gee, R.W. (1999). Encouraging ESL students to read. TESOL Journal, 8(1), 3-7.
- Jacobs, G., & Gallo, P. (2002, February). Reading alone together: Enhancing extensive reading via student-student cooperation in second-language instruction. Reading Online, 5(6).
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Heal, L. (1998, December). Motivating large reading classes. Language Teacher Online. Available:
- Helgesen, M. (1997). Bringing those books back to the classroom: Tasks for extensive reading. The Language Teacher, 21.5 (1997): 53-54.
- Helgesen, Marc (1997). What one extensive reading program looks like. The Language Teacher, 21.5.
- Hess, N., & Jasper, S.P. (1995). A blending of media for extensive reading. TESOL Journal, 4, 7-11.
- Hill, D. (1997). Setting up an extensive reading program: Practical tips. The Language Teacher, 21.5: 17-20.
- Jacobs, G.M. (1993). Book wheels. In R. Day (Ed.), New ways to teach reading (pp. 5-6). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
- Robert W. Long III (1997, October). Using Audiotapes to Assess Student Speech. The Language Teacher Online: 21.10.
- Swain, M. (1999). Integrating language and content teaching through collaborative tasks. In C.S. Ward & W.A. Renandya (Eds.), New insights for the language teacher (pp. 125-147). Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.
- Tschirner, Erwin (2001) Language Acquisition in the Classroom: The Role of Digital Video. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 14(3-4): 305-320.
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