Extensive Reading Ppt

Extensive reading Mr. Mohamed Saoudi

Calliope Language Center

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What is Extensive Reading?

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The Benefits of Extensive Reading Read Easy, Read a Lot Task-based Elements of Extensive Reading Overcoming Obstacles to Extensive Reading Reading Circles

What is Extensive Reading?

“Extensive reading is a language teaching procedure where learners are supposed to read large quantities of material or long texts for global understanding, the principal goal being obtaining pleasure from the text." (Bamford, Extensive Reading Activities 1)

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The Benefits of Extensive Reading •Fluent reader •Read more

•Motivated learners •Autonomous learners

•Encounter words/phrases in different contexts Improved performance

Deepening of word knowledge

Engaged attitudes

Enhanced fluency

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•Increase oral competence in both listening & speaking

Read Easy, Read a Lot

Increase word recognition

Familiar words motivate to read more

Easy texts , read fast

Read more means enjoy and gain more 5

Task-based Elements of Extensive Reading       

Book clubs: discuss &play roles Suggest new title Best cover book design Best critic comment Change some characters of the book. Book review Visual text (change the text into images/ comics) 6

Overcoming Obstacles to Extensive Reading

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Most students now are digital citizens Watching compared to adaptation Bring books and have a classroom library Community sponsoring Rewarding reading communities 7

Reading Circles

Origin & purposes

•Religious communities •Social/ educational/ entertainment

How to implement

•Discuss: book genre/ simple structure/ 3hrs per week •Chair person: reminder/ weekly reading

In the classroom

•Read: struggle & read loud •Discuss: define & critic

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References

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http://kierandonaghy.com/seven-benefits-extensive-reading-english-language-students/ http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1083750.pdf https://es.slideshare.net/MiguelDeLaFerrelle/benefits-of-extensive-reading https://is.muni.cz/th/152953/pedf_b/bakalarska_prace.pdf http://ww.cape.edu/docs/TTalk0021.pdf http://iteslj.org/Articles/Bell-Reading.html https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-help-english-learners-read-more-quickly https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/extensive-reading http://www.fluentu.com/blog/extensive-reading-activities-for-teaching-language/?lang=en http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2002/day/day.html http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/April2014/articles/beglar.pdf http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042814038075/1-s2.0-S1877042814038075-main.pdf?_tid=74e1efdc-01a2-11e7-891000000aacb361&acdnat=1488718471_64b8145b1360fcbb0d81d27a0a6ee82f https://www.coursera.org/learn/esl-reading/lecture/O92R2/reading-circles-interview-with-sam-duncan https://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00702/minilessons.pdf http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED492558.pdf

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