TESL Ontario Webinar

Why is extensive reading important for language learning? How can students be motivated to read for pleasure? How can instructors enhance a student’s incidental language learning through extensive reading? Join us to learn answers to these questions.

Our presenter will review the basic principles and benefits of extensive reading, which include increased confidence, enjoyment of reading, autonomy, and passive vocabulary building. She will guide you in developing an effective extensive language program, suggest sources for materials, and related lesson activities.

Learning outcomes:

• How intensive reading is different from extensive reading.
• The benefits of extensive reading.
• Which type of motivation, intrinsic or extrinsic, students need for extensive reading.
• The 10 core principles for extensive reading instruction (Day & Bamford, 2002).
• How to introduce extensive reading to the classroom.
• The reasons to persist in the effort to arouse intrinsic motivation for extensive reading.
• How to assess extensive reading.

WEBINAR TYPE

General

CATEGORIES

Literacy, extensive reading

PARTICIPANT LEVEL

All levels

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Gonul Turkdogan has a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (TESL) and a BA in Sociology with a minor in Women Studies, both from Brock University. Prior to the downturn in international student enrollment caused by the pandemic, Gonul was an ESL instructor at Niagara College, teaching a variety of EAP courses. She is currently the academic drop-in facilitator at the college’s library, as well as a Turkish interpreter for the Canadian Border Service. She previously taught ESL in China and Turkey. Her research interests include extensive reading and second language reading.

Gonul’s related blog posts:

January, 2020 – http://blog.teslontario.org/the-role-of-extensive-reading-in-language-learning/

April, 2020 - http://blog.teslontario.org/extensive-reading-resources/