The Internet TESL Journal Extensive Reading: Why? and How? Timothy Bell timothy [at] hsc.kuniv.edu.kw Kuwait University Abstract An extensive reading program was established for elementary level language learners at the British Council Language Center in Sanaa‚ Yemen. Research evidence for the use of such programs in EFL/ESL contexts is presented‚ emphasizing the benefits of this type of input for students ’ English language learning and skills development. Practical advice is then offered
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practice makes perfect in almost everything we humans do and reading is no different. 2. Reading exercises our brains. Reading is a much more complex task for the human brain than‚ say‚ watching TV is. Reading strengthens brain connections and actually builds new connections. 3. Reading improves concentration. Again‚ this is a bit of a no-brainer. Children have to sit still and quietly so they can focus on the story when they’re reading. If they read regularly as they grow up‚ they develop the
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Part (A) SHARED READING Introduction: Shared reading is an important instructional strategy in which the teacher explicitly engages students in the reading process. The shared reading offers an approach where teachers can use authentic literacy text to enable children to develop tactic and become confident and independent readers. The pioneer of this strategy was New Zealander Don Holdway (1979). Holdway (1979) explains shared reading as “the unison situation properly controlled in a lively
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Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge‚ of happiness‚ of pleasure and even moral courage. In today’s world with so much more to know and to learn‚ the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged‚ there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed time compensated to some extent for the lack of reading. Books are our best friends. They never deceive
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The Importance of Reading September 1st 2012 People are living in a world where new technological advances have replaced the desire to read. Reading‚ in my opinion‚ has become less important to many adults and children. Some children and teenagers prefer to watch a movie or playing video games instead of reading a book. Some adults prefer to watch television than to read a good novel. Reading‚ in some people’s agenda‚ is not as important as it used to be like in the early 1900’s. To some people
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Reading is a very important part of learning‚ as it helps us gather information converting the information in a book‚ journal‚ newspaper‚ etc. into a usable form. It helps you understand a topic of a particular area of study and through out it is how we understand the topic and it is when we start making our own judgment and opinion in the theme. This becomes more important through university‚ where your are studying a specific subject and you want to extend your knowledge as you are expected to
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dass can encourage you and form the basis of a community that will help and sustain you. But that dass‚ as helpful as it was‚ is not where I learned to write. *itirg ike most-maybe all-vriters‚ I learned to write by and‚ by example‚ from reading books. Instead I answer by recalling my owu most valuable experienee not as a teacher‚ but as a student in one of the few fietion workshops I have ever taken. This was in the 1970s‚ during ny brief careLr as a graduate student in
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Reading theories Of the two approaches mentioned in reading research and literature‚ the bottom-up approach focuses on language elements such as grammar‚ vocabulary and cohesion‚ while the top-down approach includes a focus on background knowledge about content and organization‚ generally referred to as content and formal schemata respectively. A combination of these two approaches is generally known as the Interactive Model of Reading. The pedagogy in this study was based on the Schema Interactive
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Theories of Reading http://parlindunganpardede.wordpress.com/articles/language-teaching/a-review-on-reading-theories-and-its-implication-to-the-teaching-of-reading/ So far‚ there are three main theories which explain the nature of learning to read. First‚ the traditional theory‚ or bottom up processing‚ which focused on the printed form of a text. (2) the cognitive view‚ or top-down processing enhanced the role of background knowledge in addition to what appeared on the printed page. Third‚ the
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read them. In teaching reading to young children‚ word selection is often the first place where we go wrong. We pull words from thin air and try to put them into the child. Often we make matters worse by putting these strange words into printed context outside the realm of the child’s experience and expecting him to read--and he cannot. Children can learn to read any word they speak. One of the greatest hoaxes in all of educational pedagogy is that which says that reading vocabulary must be developed
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