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Re: In class reading Is important

Glen Hill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:54:29 GMT

Akio, Do they actually read for the whole 80 minutes or just 30 minutes of SSR (which is what I thought you wrote earlier)? If it's 30 minutes, then their

In class reading Is important

Akio FURUKAWA — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:51 GMT

Dear Glenn and all, In my school, the average total amount of words the students have read in three academic years is about 1 million words. However, a half of

Re: re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Mark Brierley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:20:00 GMT

Hi Richard, My experience teaching in a national university in Japan is similar to Akio's, although I'd start my students at i-1 where he would maybe prefer

Re: re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Lemmer Richard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:53 GMT

Glenski, Only reporting the facts as presented to me. Actually I agree with you. It is a matter of (misplaced?) priorities rather than actual free time.

Re: re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Glen Hill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:59:53 GMT

Richard (and all), Re: lack of time I always joke about that with students who give me the same reply. Yeah, yeah, I know uni students' lives are busy with

re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Lemmer Richard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:23 GMT

Hi Akio, Thanks for the quick response. The reason I asked is that I conducted a survey about students' reading habits and preferences and although I have yet

Re: quoting people from this site

Mark Brierley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:56:19 GMT

This doesn't make any difference to the moderator's rules for conduct among members of the group, but as far as I can tell all of our messages can be seen on

On recent activity

carlos_teacher_77 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:20:03 GMT

Hi all, Well I've been lurking for a while, sorry. But the activity of recent days has prompted me to "delurk". I'll try to make brief comments on some of the

ER classes in Japan

Atsuko Takase — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:11:43 GMT

Dear All, I am writing a book on Extensive Reading targeted mainly to Japanese teachers of English. In the book I'd like to introduce institutions where ER is

Re: quoting people from this site

Vanessa Crary Vaile — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:03:45 GMT

My apologies for unintended kerfuffle or ruffled feathers. I thought it was understood that "privacy" referred to citing posts off list, especially in papers

Re: eBooks: a writer's view

Rob Waring — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:15:55 GMT

Oh I'd add 'dealing with editors' is a good thing. They can help maintain standards and uniformity even if they can interfere in the writing process, they can

Re: eBooks: a writer's view

Rob Waring — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:13:05 GMT

I agree with Jeremy, the problem is distribution and marketing. How does one let people know these books are available and how would they know the quality? To

eBooks: a writer's view

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:46:42 GMT

As a writer of readers I am in favour of e.books - not that I would ever want to read a lot of text online. But for ER, they are perfect. You can do so much

re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Akio FURUKAWA — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:48:52 GMT

Hi, Richard, I did lectures about ER at Chiba University and Okayama University several years ago. I was asked by math or physic professors to do the lectures

re. Akio's post on reading material is too difficult

Lemmer Richard — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:08:43 GMT

HI Akio, I saw this in a reply to Glenski and was wondering where you got this figure for these schools???? Thanks, Richard "80 % of the students of national