#22 The Foundations Reading Library. An interview with Rob Waring (part II)

Extensive Reading Podcast

English - July 10, 2018 12:29 - 31.8 MB - ★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: #21: The mathematics of language scream at us. An interview with Rob Waring

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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 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.com/authors/writing-a-graded-reader/writing-graded-readers-rob-waring/

Second, an article by Stuart McLean on the graded reader collection we discuss in the interview.

http://jalt-publications.org/content/index.php/jer/article/view/5

Note: we recorded this episode before this week’s horrible floods in Japan and feel a little embarrassed about how lightly we talk about the rain in the episode.

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