We will have a short talk about Extensive Reading from Pat Conaway on Sunday 22 February 19:00-20:00. The event will involve a short 20-30 minute casual talk from our PresentER, followed by around 20-30 minutes of questions and discussion. PresentERs takes place on the last Sunday of each month online on Zoom. It is free for anyone to attend.

Abstract:

A corpus investigation on how the vocabulary profiles and syntactic complexity of several graded reader series matches with that of the different types of reading passages used on the Kyotsu Test university entrance exam.

Bio:

I teach at a small private university in north eastern Japan. I’ve been interested in extensive reading for several years now. I’m especially interested in transfer of skills from reading to writing and speaking. Also, recently I have been experimenting with using cooperative board games to help develop my students interactive speaking skills.

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