scholarly journals Authentic Texts with a Person-Centered Message as an Education Resource for Extensive Reading Textbooks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Nikolaeva ◽  
Natalia Tomskaya
Keyword(s):  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Education Resource ◽  
Reading Textbooks

scholarly journals The Strengths and Weaknesses of Extensive Reading using Wattpad; Students’ Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Intan Permatasari ◽  
Agus Wijayanto ◽  
Diah Kristina
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Class Room ◽  
The Times ◽  
Reading Activity

This study aims to explore the strengths and weaknesses of extensive reading using Wattpad platform based on students’ perceptions. Extensive reading allows students to have more variation in their reading materials as they can read authentic texts from various sources that it is actually applied outside the class room for most people consider it as joyful reading. The advancement of technology over the times enables people to do many activities online, including extensive reading activity. Hence, Wattpad is believed to provide enormous free and paid reading materials that can support extensive reading for the students. To achieve the objectives, this study is in the form of case study. The data were collected through in-depth interview with the participants. The participants were two undergraduate students majoring English Education from two different universities in Indonesia. The participants were selected purposively because they were known to have been doing extensive reading activity on Wattpad for a quite long time, specifically for five years. The research findings showed several strengths of using Wattpad for extensive reading such as Wattpad gives students numerous and various sources of reading materials; extensive reading on Wattpad is a fun and enjoyable experience; extensive reading on Wattpad is more practical than using printed-books; extensive reading on Wattpad is money-saving; the reading materials on Wattpad have good quality contents; extensive reading through Wattpad improves students English’s skills unconsciously as well as the reading habit. Meanwhile, there are several weaknesses of extensive reading using Wattpad according to students such as; similarities in the reading materials sometimes make them boring to read; using the platform for a certain long time can potentially cause tired eyes; there are other distractions that can disrupt the extensive reading activity.

scholarly journals CAN TED TALK TRANSCRIPTS SERVE AS EXTENSIVE READING MATERIAL FOR MID-FREQUENCY VOCABULARY LEARNING?

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Wenhua Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Word Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Reading Programs ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Frequency Word ◽  
Word Families ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Ted Talks

Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 word families is necessary. Subsequent to this vocabulary goal is to determine what can be read extensively to increase vocabulary progressively since most words cannot be mastered through only one exposure. This research aimed to investigate how much TED talk transcripts input is needed to encounter most of the first 9000 word families for learning to occur. It first measured the vocabulary levels of TED talks for their potential as extensive reading material for mid-frequency word learning. The results show that TED talks reached the 5th to 6th 1000-word-family level at 98% lexical coverage. Corpus sizes of 0.3 to 4.8 million words of TED transcripts provided an average of 12+ repetitions for most of the words from the first 4th to 9th 1000 word families. The figures may serve as a reference for learners in extensive reading programs to decide how much effort they should make to read TED talk transcripts voluminously to reach a certain vocabulary goal.

scholarly journals Research on Language-teaching Materials—An Evaluation of Extensive Reading Textbooks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1628
Author(s):  
Li Pan ◽  
Ping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Textbook Evaluation ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Reading Teaching ◽  
Reading Textbooks

In second language teaching, materials play a unique role and the demand of developing language-teaching materials has been increasing. The textbook, an integral part of language-teaching materials, to some extent dominates the contents of teaching and learning and has a deep influence on curriculum. Textbooks for extensive reading apparently highlights this feature while some kind of series adopted in universities have several shortcomings in the representativeness of the articles and their variety of the categories, etc. which makes it hard to play an active role and have a positive impact in teaching and learning process. Some teachers ignore the development of this ability and the significant contribution they can make to evaluating and selecting textbooks. Thus, the author collects basic information from one series of textbooks and analyzes it systematically, and then shows overall comments with detailed suggestions on contents as: selecting more articles from representative writers; increasing articles about history and philosophy; selecting more current articles from magazines; adding more poems and attaching more detailed introductions about the authors and reference books to read. These suggestions will provide some implication for extensive reading textbook evaluation and selection, thereby, the selected textbooks can be at the good service for extensive reading teaching and teachers can get a self-development in the process.

LEARNING MATERIALS: THE “NUCLEUS” OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Desy Damayanti ◽  
Adin Fauzi ◽  
Azizatul Mahfida Inayati
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Among some components of effective language classroom, learning materials indisputably play a focal role. They improve the quality of language teaching; facilitate teachers in doing their duties, and lead students to a higher level of understanding in learning. This research aims to discuss the notion of materials in language teaching. It made use of works of literature to outline the importance of materials in language teaching, and to analyze kinds of materials, which are relevant to language teaching. The analysis resulted in the classification of materials into two broad categories namely (1) created materials, which include course book, audio materials, and video materials; and (2) authentic materials, which cover authentic texts, movie/film, radio broadcasting, television program, graphs, maps, tables, and charts. This paper serves as an invaluable resource to facilitate language teachers in selecting appropriate materials for effective language teaching.

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