The Power of Series Books
Willy A Renandya, Stephen Krashen & George M Jacobs ABSTRACT Nobody disagrees that reading is good for students’ language development. The more they read texts that they can understand,…
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Bridging the Reading-Writing Gap
"If reading and writing really were identical and not just similar, then…everything learned in one would automatically transfer to the other” (Fitzgerald & Shanahan, 2000, p. 43). For many years…
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Should you be Teaching Reading Intensively or Extensively?
INTRODUCTION There are two main approaches to teaching reading in the L2 classroom: intensive reading and extensive reading. Although both are important in facilitating L2 reading development, teachers seem to…
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Vocabulary as Knowledge or Ability?
A graduate student of mine recounted her aha experience when she was preparing for her IELTS test. Knowing that she needed to know a lot of English vocabulary words to…
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