Teaching Extensive Reading in Another Language

Paul Nation is Professor Emeritus in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Rob Waring is Professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan.

Chapter 1: Keeping extensive reading simple Chapter 2: What are graded readers? Chapter 3: Case studies of extensive reading programs Chapter 4: How do you set up and run an extensive reading program? Chapter 5: How vocabulary is learned from extensive reading Chapter 6: The most important studies on extensive reading in a foreign language Chapter 7: Research findings: motivation and pushing learners to read Chapter 8: Research findings: Does extensive reading result in reading fluency and comprehension improvement? Chapter 9: Research on vocabulary learning from extensive reading Chapter 10: Developing reading fluency Chapter 11: Designing research into extensive reading Chapter 12: What makes a good graded reading scheme? Chapter 13: A way forward References