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Extensive Reading Podcast
by Jose Camino and Travis Past
Join us as we talk to researchers, teachers, practitioners, readers and writers in the second language learning community about extensive reading!
Episodes
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#26 ER and the use of the first language: An interview with Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
Last August we went to Kyoto Sangyo University to interview Professor Amanda Gillis-Furutaka. She has been teaching there for over twenty years, contributing to establish and maintain a large extensive reading programme at this university. Over the last few years, she has been carrying out...
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#25 Voices on future research on ER
We have dedicated our 25th episode to the future of ER research. There are so many things that we still don’t know about ER that it is not easy to decide where to start looking. In our case, we begun by seeking out the opinions of two long-time ER practitioners and advocates with extensive...
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#24: An interview with Marcos Benevides
There are so many ways in which Tokyo Oberlin University Professor Marcos Benevides, our guest for our 24th episode, is connected with ER that it is hard to chose one to start with. For one thing, for the last six years he has been using extensive reading as part of an English programme for 2,000...
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#23: The symbiotic relationship between intentional vocabulary learning and ER: An interview with Charles Browne
I first saw Dr. Charles Browne a few months ago at JALT’s PanSIG in Tokyo. He was giving a talk in a room that was almost as packed as a Japanese train during rush hour. He was introducing ER Central, which is a website that he created with Rob Waring, where students and teachers can find a…
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#22 The Foundations Reading Library. An interview with Rob Waring (part II)
In the second part of our interview with Dr. Rob Waring, he tells us about his experiences as author and editor of graded readers in general, with particular reference to a very successful collection whose books he co-authored with Maurice Jamall: Heinle Cengage’s Foundations Reading Library. For...
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#21: The mathematics of language scream at us. An interview with Rob Waring
Whenever we asked our guests for tips on who to interview next, Dr. Rob Waring’s name popped up almost immediately. When we asked Paul Goldberg, he told us that nobody made the case for extensive reading like he did, and that if you were in the same room with him and did not support extensive...
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#20 Chinese Graded Readers and ER in Chinese
After a long break that we took following the beginning of the academic year in Japan, we are back with a new episode and a new interview. This time we deal with extensive reading in Chinese. We do so in the company of Chinese language consultants Jared Turner and John Pasden, who have put…
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#19: Cheating in extensive reading programmes
For our nineteenth episode we have an interview with professors Naeko Naganuma and Patrick Daugherty, from Akita International University, in the north of Japan. In the interview they tell us about the research that they have recently carried out on academic dishonesty in extensive reading...
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#18: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part II)
In the second part of the interview, Professor Nation discusses different ways of doing extensive reading depending on whether one’s target is more fluency or vocabulary oriented, the need to make sure that the students know the reasons why they should be doing ER, the amount of reading that...
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#17: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part I)
Professor Paul Nation, our guest for this and the following episode, needs no introduction. His name has been recurrently popping up in previous shows, mostly in discussions about the role of extensive reading within language teaching in general. In this first part of the interview he discusses...
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#16: From theory to practice. ER in a secondary school in Malaysia. Interview with Navinder Kaur
Our guest for this episode is an English teacher in a secondary school in Malaysia who has been using extensive reading in her classes for many years in spite the isolation and the budget limitations. In this interview she tells us everything about motivating her students to read without…
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#15 ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part II)
Our previous episode featured the first part of our interview with long-time promoter of ER in Japanese Dr. Tabata-Sandom, which dealt mostly with the particularities of the Japanese writing system and its effects on learning to read the language. In this episode we include the second part of…
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#14: ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part I)
“Anyone can learn to read fluently in Japanese” In this episode we start to explore a promising territory that has been tempting us for a long time: extensive reading in languages other than English. We look at ER in Japanese with the guidance of Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom, who has been using...
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#13: Reading aloud to students. An interview with George Jacobs
Reading aloud is often seen as a little more than a resource that can be used when the students’ level is too low for them to do extensive reading by themselves. However, there are those who argue that there is room in every class for reading books aloud, regardless of the age of level of the...
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#12: Altruistic extensive reading: The Readers4Readers Project
We recorded our last episode of the year with professors Kevin Ramsden and Aaron Campbell in a very nice studio at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, or Kyoto Gaidai, as it is commonly known. They told us about how they are putting altruistic motivation to work, having their students do much…
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#11: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part II)
We are back after our one-week break with an episode that continues to deal with editing and adapting graded readers. Nick Bullard, long-time editor of graded readers at Oxford University Press as well as adapter tells us more about the issues surrounding these two complementary jobs. We learn…
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#10: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part I)
Do you know when your favorite author died? Our guest probably does! In our tenth episode, we bring you part one of our two part interview with Nick Bullard, who has been in the graded reader business for a long time both as editor and as writer. As an editor, he has extensive experience managing...
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#9: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part II)
Don’t call them characters. Call them people. Our ninth episode features the second part of the interview we had with Dr. Antoinette Moses, acclaimed author of graded readers like Jojo’s Story, John Doe and Book Boy. In this part of the interview Dr. Moses gives plenty of good advice to those who...
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#8: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part I)
I think it’s important that stories reflect the world in which young people live. Welcome to the eighth episode of the ER Podcast. After having dealt with extensive reading mostly from the point of view of the teachers, this time we look at it from a different angle. We interview Dr. Antoinette...
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#7: Interview with Atsuko Takase (Part II)
For our seventh episode we have the second part of the interview that Professor Atsuko Takase gave us. She tells us about teachers’ motivation to do ER, the need for teachers to do ER themselves so that they can understand the students’ experience with ER, and the role of manga in ER among many...
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#6: Interview with Atsuko Takase (part I)
Our sixth episode features the first part of a long telephone interview with professor Atsuko Takase, long time ER enthusiast, practitioner and promoter, and co-chair of this summer’s Extensive Reading World Congress in Tokyo. Professor Takase tells us about when she was visiting a high school...
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#5: Paul Goldberg on the XReading Virtual Library
Welcome to our fifth episode, the first one after a long summer break. In this episode we interview Paul Goldberg, creator, founder and owner of X-Reading, an online subscription-based graded-reader library that allows students unlimited access to more than 600 books on their computers, tablets…
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#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...
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#3: Thomas Robb on the Extensive Reading Foundation and the 4th World Congress on Extensive Reading
Welcome to the third episode of the Extensive Reading Podcast. In this episode we include the first part of a long interview with Thomas Robb, who has been implementing extensive reading programmes since the 1980s at Kyoto Sangyo University and who is probably best known for being the creator and...
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#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…
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#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...
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Join us as we talk to researchers, teachers, practitioners, readers and writers in the second language learning community about extensive reading!
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Extensive Reading Podcast is created and hosted by Jose Camino and Travis Past.
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