Helene Demirci
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All levels Running Online Extensive Reading Groups more
Sun, Aug 7, 19:30-21:30 Asia/Tokyo
The session will explain how remote online extensive reading (ER) groups were created using Zoom video conferencing for after school activities and summer camps. Teachers of Arabic in local schools in the UAE were invited to join the project and interested teachers were provided access to the Arabic ER website that contains links to online Arabic reading materials and the Arabic M-reader site. The project aimed to introduce ER in the home in an attempt to encourage families to embrace and normalize reading. The Arabic version of M-reader was used to track students' reading and to facilitate a competition. Feedback on reading achievements and the competition was provided in the Zoom meeting activities by volunteer undergraduate students. They also assisted in supporting students' ER practices in Arabic by reading aloud to children in the reading group. The outcomes of the project will also be explained so that online reading groups can be implemented in any ER setting.
All levels ERF Affiliates Panel more
Sun, Aug 7, 15:30-17:30 Asia/Tokyo
This session has two parts. Motivating Learners to Read Extensively Around the World Whilst there is a certain level of agreement on the activities that can be adopted to gain the benefits of extensive reading for language learning, recent discussions among the ERF affiliates have impressed upon us that different approaches are needed when motivating learners to habitually engage in extensive reading in different parts of the world. Therefore, this panel discussion aims to bring together the affiliates to discuss and answer questions related to motivating learners to read extensively in their given context. The session will include other panelists not listed here. Following the panel there will be a general discussion on forming and managing ERF Affiliates
