Bringing extensive reading into the classroom

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Richard Day. Bringing extensive reading into the classroom

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Part 1. Extensive Reading: the theory

1 Extensive Reading: the background. Richard Day

2 A series editor’s view (1) Jennifer Bassett

Part 2. Extensive Reading: the practice

3 Series editors’ view (2) Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

4 Class readers. Sue Parminter and Bill Bowler

5 Libraries. Nick Bullard

6 Reading circles. Mark Furr

Part 3. Extensive Reading: case studies

7 An Extensive Reading Programme in Jordan. Nina Prentice

8 The Extensive Reading Programme in Bahrain. Minas Mahmood

9 Evolution of a high school Extensive Reading Programme. Daniel Stewart

10 A digital solution for Extensive Reading. Thomas Robb

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Richard Day is Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii. He is co-editor of the journal, Reading in a Foreign Language, and chairman of the Extensive Reading Foundation. His recent publications include Cover to Cover 1–3 (OUP 2009). Dr Day is engaged in a study of the effects of timed-repeated reading on fluency and comprehension.

Jennifer Bassett is the series editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library. For over twenty years she has been writing, editing, and thinking about stories for English language learners. Her publications include about forty original and retold graded readers. Her abiding interests are storytelling within a reduced code, and searching for good stories from every corner of the world.

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Minas Mahmood is a senior curriculum specialist in the Bahrain Ministry of Education. She is responsible for secondary-level EFL curriculum renewal. In addition to her interest in teacher development through teacher research, she has been involved with learning and language development in schools through Extensive Reading. She has also contributed to TESOL Arabia’s Journal, Perspectives.

Daniel Stewart is the Head Foreign Teacher at Kaisei Academy in Tokyo. He has been involved in Extensive Reading since 2002. He is also the editor of the Extensive Reading Journal in Japan. His current interests in research include ER, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and Extensive Listening (EL).

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