Mintra Puripunyavanich
Chulalongkorn University Language Institute
About
Dr. Mintra Puripunyavanich is an assistant professor of English in the Division of English for Business, Assistant to the Deputy Director for International Affairs, and Editor of PASAA Journal at Chulalongkorn University Language Institute. Currently, she serves as Chair of Thailand Extensive Reading Association (TERA) and a committee member of Thailand TESOL. Her research interests include extensive reading, materials development, and English for Economics and Business.Sessions
School Building a Nation of Readers from Scratch more
Sat, Aug 6, 19:30-19:50 Asia/Tokyo
In February 2022, the Thailand Extensive Reading Association (TERA) in collaboration with Sakdibhornssup Foundation launched a project called “Building a Nation of Readers”. The project provides an opportunity for secondary school students across Thailand to have hands-on experience of extensive reading outside of class through a reading marathon event. 200 students participated in the project and were divided into 20 teams with one teacher supervising each team. Xreading.com was used as the platform for the participants to read graded readers of their own choice and to assist the organizing team to keep records of their reading. A webinar on tips for improving reading skills and vocabulary through reading graded readers and a workshop on online extensive reading via Xreading were conducted to prepare the participants for the marathon. This presentation will reveal participants’ opinions and experience of online extensive reading and highlight what needs to be done to keep their love of reading growing.
All levels English as a Foreign Language Reading Survey 2022 more
Sun, Aug 7, 12:00-12:20 Asia/Tokyo
This presentation will outline the goals of the Global Foreign Language Reading Survey 2022 (GFLRS 2022). GFLRS will survey teachers from all over the world to examine their perceptions of how foreign language reading should be taught in kindergarten, formal schooling, university and in adult education. GFLRS will illuminate the teachers' perceptions of the place of extensive reading in the foreign language curriculum and how it is practiced by those teachers who are doing ER and will find out why many teachers and institutions are reluctant to do ER, the barriers they face before adoption and what we can do to persuade them to adopt ER. Attendees will first hear a brief summary of the project and will be encouraged to highlight areas in the survey that might need to be modified for certain regions to account for local conditions. Finally, participants can sign up to be part of the survey either as subjects or recruiters who will find subjects. All non-personally or institutionally identifying data will be made available to the public.
