Extensive Reading Podcast

Extensive Reading Podcast

By Jose Camino and Travis PastEducation
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Extensive Reading Podcast episodes

  • #4: Thomas Robb on quizzing students and the MReader
    Welcome to our fourth episode, in which we play the second part of our interview with Thomas Robb that we started in episode 3. This time, professor Robb tells us about the history of the most popular tool for teachers all over the world to make sure that their students are reading their graded readers: the MReader.
    For the Continuing the Debate section we comment on a brief segment by long-time comprehensible-input advocate Stephen Krashen, which we borrowed from a short lecture available onYoutube.
    We hope you like the episode. We certainly had a great time recording it.
    50 min
  • #2: Mark Brierley on Running an ER Programme
    Episode #2: Mark Brierley on Running an ER Programme
    Welcome to the second episode of the Extensive Reading Podcast. In this
    episode we interview ER enthusiast and long-time practitioner Mark
    Brierley, from JALT's Special Interest Group in Extensive in Reading,
    who tells us about why graded readers should always
    be present in the language classroom, how to build up large-scale
    library of graded readers, and how to keep an extensive reading
    programme started and running for many years. Also in this episode we
    start Continuing the Debate, a new section in which we will
    be discussing opposing points on view on second language acquisition,
    teaching and learning. This week Travis introduces Merril Swain's Output
    Hypothesis, nothing less.
    44 min
  • #1: What This is all About.
    Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Extensive Reading Podcast. In this episode, your hosts Jose & Travis attempt to take an intensive look into extensive reading. We discuss Day & Bamford’s (2002) Top Ten Principles for Teaching Extensive Reading in order to lay a foundation on what ER is. We also hear brief comments from Paul Goldberg, Mark Brierley, & Ann Flanagan who spoke at the recent “JALT Nara and JALT ER SIG: A Day of Extensive Reading – All you ever wanted to know about ER!”.
    We hope you enjoy the first ER Podcast!
    34 min

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