Adults Learning English : the Role Pleasure Reading Plays in their Success
I have a class of adult learners of 17. They come from different parts of Asia: Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea and Vietnam. They’re mostly intermediate level in their English, both written and oral. The course I teach is called Independent Reading.
The program I use with them is broken up into two parts: two days in [...]
Why Rewards are Potentially Harmful in a Reading Program
Let us begin this conversation by looking back at times in your life when you read books or any printed medium, for that matter, simply because you wanted to. It was not because of some reward, nor was it because you wanted to avoid some kind of negative consequence by not reading. What was it [...]