1st Edition
Teaching Extensive Reading in Another Language
Chapter 1: Keeping extensive reading simple
Chapter 2: What are graded readers?
Chapter 3: Case studies of extensive reading programs
Chapter 4: How do you set up and run an extensive reading program?
Chapter 5: How vocabulary is learned from extensive reading
Chapter 6: The most important studies on extensive reading in a foreign language
Chapter 7: Research findings: motivation and pushing learners to read
Chapter 8: Research findings: Does extensive reading result in reading fluency and comprehension improvement?
Chapter 9: Research on vocabulary learning from extensive reading
Chapter 10: Developing reading fluency
Chapter 11: Designing research into extensive reading
Chapter 12: What makes a good graded reading scheme?
Chapter 13: A way forward
References
Biography
Paul Nation is Professor Emeritus in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Rob Waring is Professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan.
"Teaching Extensive Reading in Another Language is an invaluable addition to ER literature. While making readers aware of the complementary relationship between vocabulary learning from ER and deliberate vocabulary learning, the authors assert that ER is possibly the best remedy to problematic L2 curricula. Such a claim is assuredly justified by research and empirical findings. This book also makes ER accessible to practitioners by providing examples of ER practice, while simultaneously encouraging researchers to advance ER research by outlining methodological pitfalls. This volume can, therefore, be considered as a source of inspiration for existing and future ER proponents."
—Mitsue Tabata-Sandom, Reading in a Foreign Language 32(1)
