Join the breakout room for a discussion on Research and Theoretical Issues.

The Journal of Extensive Reading (JER) is a peer-reviewed online journal of research on extensive reading run by the Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT) Extensive Reading Special Interest Group. The journal supplements what is already offered in the journal Extensive Reading in Japan (ERJ) by focusing on the publication of high-quality empirical research on ER. Please join our session to learn about our publication and how you can get more involved in the extensive reading research community by submitting a manuscript or becoming a reviewer yourself.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Extensive Listening.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Writing Materials.

Join the breakout room to ask and answer questions. Please watch the video before joining the session. The presenter will be available to take questions about any of the topics brought up in the video. Participants will also have chances to add their own idea.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Reading in an electronic age and ER without graded readers.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Classroom issues.

Join the breakout room to ask and answer questions. Please watch the video before joining the session. The presenter will be available to take questions about any of the topics brought up in the video. Participants will also have chances to add their own ideas.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on XReading.

This discussion is centered about the process of extensive reading (ER) program implementation in schools from a functional perspective. There are many factors that may have hindered the spread of ER into the public school systems of many countries such as the need for and expense of graded readers, the means to handle the lending and return of books, the general mindset geared to intensive study in order to pass examinations, and the already heavy demands placed on public school teachers. It makes an argument for a top-down approach being required for wide-spread implementation as well as the need for materials other than graded readers, which while being the gold standard for ER, cannot realistically be purchased by and managed in a large school system. The impact on student choice of what to read is also discussed. We will then proceed to a discussion with the participants concerning a way forward.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Young Learners.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Library Management and Reading Spaces.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Global Issues and Intercultural Communication.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on ER in other langauges than English.

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

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.

Join the breakout room for a discussion on Motivation.