[etni] Fw: extensive reading
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- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:59:42 +0200
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Subject: RE: extensive reading
Dear David,
My weak and shy students seem to enjoy this as it allows them to talk in
small groups rather than have to face the entire class. They are the ones
who tell me that this gives them an opportunity to say something in English.
The students help each other and really listen to each other.
Hedy
David wrote:
>Back in the 70s and the80s, when I was a vice principal and worked
>admin. hours, I ran a very extensive, extensive reading programme in
>school which required all students to be tested orally on the books
>they had read.
>The results were very positive and there was an atmosphere of
>reading fever in my English classes.For teachers who teach 4 or 5
>classes without the luxury of an office and admin. hours, such a
>programme would be a physical impossibility, so I was interested
>to read Hedy's group discussion idea.
>The question that immediately comes to mind is:What does she do
>with shy or weak students who can't hold their own in a group
>situation? David Bar El.
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