Response to Tom Cobb

[...]reading at the right level and in large quantities is a very important part of a language program and as I have written elsewhere (Nation, 2013), I consider that the single most important change a teacher could make to a language course is to have a substantial extensive reading program incorpo...

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Published in:Reading in a foreign language 2016-10, Vol.28 (2), p.305
Main Author: Nation, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
English language
Fluency
Foreign language learning
Language
Language change
Learner Engagement
Reading
Reading instruction
Reading materials
Reading Programs
Second Languages
Speed Reading
Teachers
Teaching Methods
Time Factors (Learning)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary Skills
Word Study Skills
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Summary:[...]reading at the right level and in large quantities is a very important part of a language program and as I have written elsewhere (Nation, 2013), I consider that the single most important change a teacher could make to a language course is to have a substantial extensive reading program incorporating both input and fluency strands. There are institutions like Akio Furukawas SEG schools in Tokyo where learners do very large amounts of reading in evening classes in addition to their regular school English classes and make substantial increases in their knowledge of the language. Unfortunately there is no hard research on these. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl Nation: Response to Tom Cobb 306 I agree with Tom that number crunching would be useful to help learners choose appropriate unsimplified texts to provide reading material at an appropriate level with only a low density of unknown words.
ISSN:1539-0578
1539-0578