Targeting Reading Literacy:
A Seminar on the Theory and Practice of Extensive Reading
Seminar Date: May 22, 2021 10:00—12:00
Registration Link:https://forms.gle/hYAbzVmBmCUmyu4XA (open till May 17)
Seminar Schedule
10:00 Welcoming address
10:05 Dr. Willy Renandya
The Primacy of Extensive Reading and Listening
10:35 Dr. Yu-Chi Wang
Extensive Reading and the Implementation of Reading Activities in EFL Classrooms
11:05 Paul Goldberg
The Benefits of doing Extensive Reading Online with Xreading
11:35 Panel Discussion
12:00 Closing Remarks
Invited Speakers
Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia.
He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has given more than 100 plenary presentations at international ELT conferences and has published extensively in the area of second language education. His publications include Language Teaching Methodology: An anthology of current practice (2002, Cambridge University Press) and Student-centred cooperative learning (2019, Springer International). He maintains a large language teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices:https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachervoices/.
Dr. Yu-Chi Wang is an assistant professor in the Foreign Language Center at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. She received her doctoral degree in Foreign Language and ESL Education program at the University of Iowa and master’s degree in Reading Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
Her research interests include learner motivation and issues related to teaching methodology and second language acquisition in the TESOL field.
Paul Goldberg has taught EFL in Venezuela, Spain, Korea, the US, and most recently at Kwansei Gakuin University in Osaka, Japan. His main areas of interest include extensive reading and extensive listening. He is also the founder of Xreading, which he developed because of his desire to make extensive reading more accessible for students and easier for teachers. He is also a board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation.
