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Monday 13 April<br />
Session 3.7 : 1725-1830<br />
Central 8<br />
80 audience<br />
Forum<br />
GEN<br />
FORUM ON EXTENSIVE READING<br />
Book Club Cafe! Improving vocabulary through extensive reading<br />
Lesley Speer & Jose Lara (Macquarie University English Language<br />
Centre)<br />
This talk, based on our action research, will provide a practical approach to<br />
speeding up vocabulary acquisition through a voluntary extensive reading<br />
programme for adult students. In our weekly ‘Book Club Cafe’ and with a<br />
variety of enjoyable reading activities, both in and out of the classroom,<br />
students show a measurable improvement in range and accuracy of<br />
vocabulary.<br />
Extensive reading competition: in quest of enlightened souls<br />
Pankaj Paul (Institute of Languages, BRAC University)<br />
This talk describes the story of a successful extensive reading competition<br />
organized in collaboration with the British Council and BRAC University.<br />
More particularly, it depicts the urgency of extensive reading at tertiary<br />
level for EAP courses in the Bangladeshi context, along with pedagogical<br />
issues, and support from a collaborating organization which altogether<br />
made the program a successful one.<br />
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MONDAY<br />
Reading interests and attitude among foundation year Arab EFL<br />
learners<br />
Nkechi Christopher (ELI, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah)<br />
Reading extensively supports language learning by increasing learners’<br />
likeness for, experience in, as well as oral and written communication<br />
ability, in the target language. However, some EFL learners lack sufficient<br />
exposure to non-classroom texts. This talk examines the influence of<br />
voluntary reading on reading interests and attitudes among students in a<br />
foundation year programme, comparing reading club members with nonmembers.<br />
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AL = Applied Linguistics<br />
BE = Business English<br />
EAP = English for Academic Purposes<br />
ESAP = English for Specific Academic<br />
Purposes<br />
ES(O)L=English for Speakers of Other<br />
Languages<br />
ESP = English for Specific Purposes<br />
GEN = General<br />
GI = Global Issues<br />
LA = Learner Autonomy<br />
LAM = Leadership & Management<br />
LMCS = Literature, Media & Cultural<br />
Studies<br />
LT = Learning Technologies<br />
MaW = Materials Writing<br />
MD = Materials Development<br />
PRON = Pronunciation<br />
RES = Research<br />
TD = Teacher Development<br />
TEA = Testing, Evaluation &<br />
Assessment<br />
TTEd = Teacher Training & Education<br />
YLT = Young Learners & Teenagers<br />
PLEASE CHECK NOTICE BOARDS FOR CHANGES & CANCELLATIONS<br />
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