Extensive Reading Podcast
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin us as we talk to researchers, teachers, practitioners, readers and writers in the second language learning community about extensive reading!
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#26 ER and the use of the first language: An interview with Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
October 08, 2018 03:53 - 57 MBLast 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 qualitative research on the thought processes that occur when we do ER in a second or foreign language. In this episode, Professor Gillis-Furutaka tells us about some of the most interesting insights that s...
#25 Voices on future research on ER
September 06, 2018 17:52 - 39.8 MBWe 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 experience conducting research in this field: Rob Waring and Tom Robb. Both of them have already been on the podcast in the past, Professor Robb in episodes 3 and 4, and Professor Waring in episodes 21 and ...
#24: An interview with Marcos Benevides
August 20, 2018 02:29 - 65.3 MBThere 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 students that he coordinates at his university. Also, he is an author and editor of graded readers, and the founder of a very particular collection: Atama ii Books, which you can sample here [http://...
#23: The symbiotic relationship between intentional vocabulary learning and ER: An interview with Charles Browne
July 26, 2018 02:39 - 44.3 MBI 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 myriad ER-related resources, and he was glowing. You could tell that he was passionate about it. I immediately thought that we had to have him on the podcast. So I told Travis and we got in touch with him....
#22 The Foundations Reading Library. An interview with Rob Waring (part II)
July 10, 2018 12:29 - 31.8 MBIn 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 those of you who want to know more about the topic of this podcast, here are a couple of nice readings: First, a text by Rob Waring on the art of writing graded readers. https://www.er-central.co...
#21: The mathematics of language scream at us. An interview with Rob Waring
July 03, 2018 12:26 - 75.3 MBWhenever 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 reading yet, he would be fast to make you change your mind about it. In this episode, which includes the first part of our interview, Dr. Waring tells us about his experiences with ER, including the firs...
#20 Chinese Graded Readers and ER in Chinese
June 19, 2018 11:40 - 57.2 MBAfter 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 together a collection of graded readers in Chinese called Mandarin Companion. In the interview they discuss their experiences reading and doing extensive reading in Chinese, and also the challenges of creat...
#19: Cheating in extensive reading programmes
March 19, 2018 04:16 - 38.2 MBFor 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 programmes and they suggest a number of ways in which teachers can discourage cheating while making the student’ extensive reading more engaging and rewarding.
#18: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part II)
March 10, 2018 07:41 - 25.7 MBIn 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 students ought to do, questions of vocabulary and frequency, and of course, the role of output in language acquisition and learning.
#17: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part I)
March 04, 2018 10:23 - 34.5 MBProfessor 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 just that: his ‘four strands’ approach to language teaching, and also their implications for the way we understand teachers’ roles and extensive reading. In the context of this discussion, Professor Na...
#16: From theory to practice. ER in a secondary school in Malaysia. Interview with Navinder Kaur
February 16, 2018 22:37 - 34.5 MBOur 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 recurring to external motivation, and we also discuss issues like the need to properly orient students before they start doing ER, or the role of ER-related activities besides sustained silent reading.
#15 ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part II)
February 10, 2018 12:01 - 33.4 MBOur 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 that interview, which deals with topics such as the challenges that authors of Japanese graded readers face, the limitations of Japanese graded readers and of doing ER in Japanese, Japanese teachers’ ope...
#14: ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part I)
February 05, 2018 13:15 - 29.4 MB“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 extensive reading to teach Japanese to her university students in New Zealand for many years, and who has also carried out a number of most interesting research studies on ER in Japanese. She gave us a lo...
#13: Reading aloud to students. An interview with George Jacobs
January 19, 2018 13:14 - 43.8 MBReading 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 students. Our guest for this episode, Dr. George Jacobs, is one of them. In this interview you’ll find a most accessible introduction to the best practices and principles for reading aloud to students, a...
#12: Altruistic extensive reading: The Readers4Readers Project
January 02, 2018 13:13 - 45.7 MBWe 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 more extensive reading than they would otherwise, while at the same time helping to create a library at a rural school in Cambodia, among many other things. You can also hear the voice of the teacher at...
#11: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part II)
December 07, 2017 13:12 - 31.1 MBWe 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, for example, how potential adaptations of George Orwell, Graham Greene and Truman Capote would have completely different implications and why that would be so. Nick also tells us about grading and head...
#10: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part I)
November 22, 2017 13:11 - 34.8 MBDo 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 the graded readers for Oxford University Press. As a writer, he has adapter some classic stories such as, Arnold Bennet’s The Card, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, John Buchan’s The Thirty...
#9: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part II)
November 16, 2017 13:10 - 26.2 MBDon’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 might be considering writing graded readers themselves, mostly concerning character creation and getting into the students’ skin to write about what they may find interesting and engaging. For thos...
#8: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part I)
November 09, 2017 13:09 - 25.4 MBI 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 Moses, three-time winner of the ER Foundation’s Language Learner Literature Award and author of highly successful books like Jojo’s Story, Book Boy and Let Me Out! Those of you who have read her books...
#7: Interview with Atsuko Takase (Part II)
November 03, 2017 13:08 - 25.4 MBFor 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 other things.
#6: Interview with Atsuko Takase (part I)
October 25, 2017 13:06 - 25.1 MBOur 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 student in the States in the 1960s where she had to read extensively in English, and about her experiences doing extensive reading with high school students and university students as well as with priva...
#5: Paul Goldberg on the XReading Virtual Library
October 19, 2017 13:04 - 41.4 MBWelcome 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 or mobile devices any time they feel like doing a bit of ER. Paul tells us extensively about his project, including how and why he created X-Reading, how he managed to get the publishers on board (Macm...
#4: Thomas Robb on quizzing students and the MReader
July 19, 2017 13:02 - 45.3 MBWelcome 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 readers: the MReader. For the Continuing the Debate section we comment on a brief segment by long-time comprehensible-input advocate Stephen Krashen, which we borrowed from a short lecture available...
#3: Thomas Robb on the Extensive Reading Foundation and the 4th World Congress on Extensive Reading
July 12, 2017 13:01 - 41.9 MBWelcome 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 administrator of the M-Reader, a very helpful programme for teachers and students doing extensive reading. In this first part of the interview he tells us about his early experiences with ER, about t...
#2: Mark Brierley on Running an ER Programme
July 05, 2017 13:00 - 40.3 MBEpisode #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 readers should always be present in the language classroom, how to build up large-scale library of graded readers, and how to keep an extensive reading programme started and running for many years. A...
#1: What This is all About.
June 27, 2017 12:53 - 31.8 MBWelcome 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 also hear brief comments from Paul Goldberg, Mark Brierley, & Ann Flanagan who spoke at the recent “JALT Nara and JALT ER SIG: A Day of Extensive Reading – All you ever wanted to know about ER!”. We...