Richard Day - Extensive Reading in Practice
Channel: TheErfoundation
Date: 2020-08-29

Video recorded at the online Extensive Reading Summer Seminar 2020
https://er2020.eventzil.la/
Abstract:
The focus of my presentation is on how extensive reading is actually used in second and foreign language (L2) contexts and its impact. I begin with a brief overview of extensive reading in which I discuss the history and nature of extensive reading. Next, I go over the ten principles that my colleague, Julian Bamford, and I formulated from our analysis of successful extensive reading programs. This is followed by a discussion of the findings of a study on the practice of extensive reading and the extent to which the 10 principles were reported to have been used. I then go over the effects of extensive reading on L2 learning. My presentation concludes with some speculation on the practice of extensive reading in the near future.