Day, Richard R.,

Extensive reading in the second language classroom / Extensive reading in the 2nd language classroom Richard R. Day, Julian Bamford. - xv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Cambridge language education . - Cambridge language education. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.

Series editor's preface -- Preface -- The Dimensions of Extensive Reading -- An approach less taken: Extensive reading introduced -- A cognitive view of reading -- Affect: The secret garden of reading -- The power of extensive reading: Insights from the research -- Extensive reading and the second language curriculum -- Materials for Extensive Reading: Issues in Development -- The cult of authenticity and the myth of simplification -- Language learner literature -- The Practice of Extensive Reading -- Setting up a program: Curricular decisions -- Materials: The lure and the ladder -- The extensive reading library -- Student orientation -- Building a community of readers -- The reading community in action -- Program evaluation -- Taking the approach less traveled -- A bibliography of language learner literature in English -- An EPER bibliography of high-quality language learner literature -- Description of the series -- References -- Index. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. 6. 7. III. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Reading.

P53.75. / D39 1998

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