LSSLT 08: Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching

Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching

Andrzej Cirocki (ed.)
Gdańsk University

This book presents a wide-ranging examination of extensive reading and its great role in increasing literacy and language development as well as fostering a positive attitude towards reading. The authors are first concerned with theoretical issues pertaining to reading English as a foreign or second language, showing how a theoretical model can be instrumental in helping teachers to encourage their students to learn to read. Then, the authors discuss the place and role of literature in language instruction at different levels, ranging from primary to university, where the term literature denotes both texts written for native speakers and graded texts designed for language learners. Suggestions are provided for integrating extensive reading into the curriculum, establishing a library, and selecting reading materials. The authors also present numerous benefits which can accrue from extensive reading, namely: improvements in learners’ general language proficiency, reading fluency, vocabulary acquisition, affective changes as well as developing communicative and (inter)cultural competences – a priority of the present-day EFL/ESL classroom. Finally, the text provides practical teaching tips, including extensive reading programme guidelines, lesson plans and activities. This innovative book will undoubtedly be a worthwhile reference source for teachers, teacher educators, and teacher trainees for years to come.

CONTENTS
Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface

SECTION ONE
DEVELOPING READING SKILLS IN A FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE

DIANA PULIDO
Developing reading skills in a foreign/second language

JOHN PAUL LOUCKY
Enhancing skills essential for effective reading

SECTION TWO
PROMOTING LITERACY THROUGH EXTENSIVE READING

ROB WARING
The inescapable case for extensive reading

DAVID R. HILL
The place and role of graded readers in the EFL context (ER programmes)

RONALD P. LEOW
Simplified written input and its effects on L2 comprehension: What the research reveals

LUCYNA ALEKSANDROWICZ-PEDICH
What to read in extensive reading programmes: Teachers’ choices and recommendations in view of the concept of the literary canon

ANDRZEJ CIROCKI
The place and role of literary texts in language education: A historical overview

MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID
Moving beyond schema: Selecting texts for EFL readers

ANA TABOADA NELE McELVANY
Between the skill and will of extensive reading: L2 learners as engaged readers

JOHN MACALISTER
“But my programme’s too full already”: How to make A Good Think happen in the academic purposes classroom

ROGER NUNN
Integrating extensive reading into holistic task-based learning units

HANDOYO WIDODO
Implementing collaborative extensive reading in an EFL classroom

GRETA GORSUCH ETSUO TAGUCHI
Repeated reading and its role in an extensive reading programme

EMILIA FUJIGAKI
Extensive reading for weak readers: Developing reading fluency in the EFL/ESL context

SUGENG ARIYANTO
Encouraging extensive reading to improve academic literacy in the EFL class

CHENJING YOU SHENGWEI CHEN
Applying authentic materials to EFL extensive reading in senior high schools in China

LARRY J. MIKULECKY
Using Internet-based children’s and young adult literature for extensive reading in EFL instruction

YONGAN WU
Engaging advanced-level ESL students to read young adult literature in extensive reading settings

ROGER NUNN
Extensive reading of literary texts for advanced students: A contrapuntal approach to critical thinking

DOREEN E. EWERT
Making connections: Using literature for extensive reading

SIVA SIVASUBRAMANIAM
Anchoring literature in extensive reading programmes: Issues and insights for promoting intersubjectivity in the classroom

MICHAEL JANOPOULOS
Pleasure reading and writing in a second language: (How) Can we make the connection?

ANA LADO
Motivating beginners to read by conducting oral activities with picture books

ATSUKO TAKASE
The effects of different types of extensive reading materials on reading amount, attitude and motivation

ALAN PULVERNESS
Deprived of history: Literature and film in third places

MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID
FRANCISCO PERLAS DUMANIG
Learning about cross-cultural encounters: Authentic texts in extensive reading (ER) programmes at university level

SIVA SIVASUBRAMANIAM
Extensive reading as semiotic mediation: A celebration of lived through experiences

SECTION THREE
THE EFFICACY OF EXTENSIVE READING: INSIGHTS FROM THE RESEARCH

ANDRZEJ CIROCKI
Implementing the ER approach to literature in the EFL secondary school classroom: An action research study

ATSUKO TAKASE
The effects of SSS on learners’ reading attitudes, motivation, and achievement: A quantitative study

FANGLIN WU
ZHILING WU
Developing learner autonomy through extensive reading in the context of Chinese EFL colleges

EMILIA FUJIGAKI
Addressing students’ output in the extensive reading class: A qualitative study

SECTION FOUR
EXTENSIVE READING IN THE EFL/ESL CLASSROOM: TEACHING TIPS

REIMA AL-JARF
Promoting EFL secondary students extensive reading skills

REIMA AL-JARF
Teaching extensive reading to EFL secondary students online

RAANA JILANI
Reading development through reading for pleasure: A plan for EFL classes

HANDOYO PUJI
WIDODO RIRIN PUSPORINI
Teaching content-based EFL extensive reading (ER)

ANNE BURNS
Reading for learning, learning for reading

JAYAKARAN MUKUNDAN
Extensive reading activity 1

JAYAKARAN MUKUNDAN
Extensive reading activity 2

ISBN 9783929075663. LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching 08. 635pp. 2009.