Events Archive

Below is information on past Extensive Reading Events including Seminars, Colloquiums and some other events in which the ER SIG has participated.

The 11th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

The 5th Extensive Reading World Congress The ER SIG co-sponsored the 5th ERWC held at Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan from August 9 - 13, 2019. Various officers and members contributed their time and effort to make this a successful conference.

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The 10th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

The 4th Extensive Reading World Congress The ER SIG co-sponsored the 4th ERWC held at Toyo Gakuin University, Tokyo from August 4 - 7, 2017. Various officers and members contributed their time and effort to make this a 200% successful conference.

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The 9th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

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The 8th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

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The 7th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

The ER SIG in association with the VOCAB SIG and JERA.

• Date: Sunday September 28, 2014
• Time: 9:00 ~ 17:00
• Place: Keisen University, West Tokyo
• Chair: Mark Brierley
• Theme: Covering the Text: Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
• Plenary Speakers: Dr. Charles Browne: Covering your bets: The connection between reading and high-frequency vocabulary
• Dr. Junko Yamashita: Reciprocal relationships between vocabulary and reading comprehension/語彙と読解の相互関係 
• Sponsors: The JALT West Tokyo Chapter and Cambridge University Press

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The ER Colloquium at JALT 2013 Conference was a great success. We extend our thanks to everyone who helped organize it and who participated in it. A special thank you to Richard Lemmer for MC-ing and time-keeping the event. Each presenter gave 15 minute presentation sessions followed by a 5 minute Q & A time in a round-robin arrangement.

The presenters and topics with the guiding theme of Learner and instructor insights were:

• Thomas E. Bieri - Nanzan University: ER in Japanese Universities: How They Do It. 
• Peter Hourdequin and Satomi Shibata - Tokoha University: Student Narratives of Extensive Reading Investment 
• Eleanor Kane - University of Shimane: Reader Response Journals for ER
• Stuart McLean - Temple University: Incidental vocabulary learning measured during a yearlong experimental study
• Rob Waring - Notre Dame Seishin University: The Relationship between Speed Reading and Extensive Reading
• Mathew White - Nagoya University of Foreign Studies and Sophie Muller - Chukyo University: Navigating Extensive Reading Through Uncharted Territories
• Young-Joo Jeon - Mokwon University: Boom in ER Classrooms in Schools of Korea 

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The 2nd Extensive Reading World Congress

• Date: September 14th and 15th (Saturday and Sunday), 2013
• Place: Yonsei University Sinchon Campus, Seoul, Korea
• Organization: The Extensive Reading Foundation
• Host: The Korean English Extensive Reading Association
• Submissions: Closed.

Detailed information about the conference can be found on the website here: http://www.er-korea-2013.org/.
Online article reporting the Congress by The Korean Times: Extensive Reading pivotal to building fluency

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The 6th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: June 1 ~ 2, 2013
• Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
• Place: Shinshu University, Matsumoto
• Chair: Mark Brierley
• Co-Chair: Sophie Muller
• Theme: Best Practices in CALL and ER
• Plenary Speakers: Donalyn Miller - Reading in the Wild: Learning from Lifelong Readers and Kunihide Sakai - Extensive Reading から tadoku へ
• Workshop: Donalyn Miller - Creating Classrooms Where Readers Flourish
• Sponsors: The JALT Extensive Reading SIG in collaboration with JALTCALL2013, Oxford University Press and Lexxica

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The 5th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: July 1st, 2012
• Time: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
• Place: Sugiyama Jogakuen University
• Theme: Extensive Reading: Research and Practice
• Plenary Speakers: Dr. S. D. Krashen - The Route to Academic Language Proficiency and Junko Yamanaka - ER-Teachers are the key to ER success.
• Workshop: Dr. S. D. Krashen - The Comprehension Hypothesis Extended
• Sponsors: The JALT Extensive Reading SIG and Sugiyama Jogakuen University

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The 4th Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011
• Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Place: Okayama University, Tsushima campus.
• Plenary Speakers: Rob Waring and Atsuko Takase
• Sponsors: The JALT Extensive Reading SIG, Okayama JALT, and the Foreign Language Center of Okayama University.

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The 3rd Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: Sunday, July 4th, 2010
• Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Place: Hokkukai Gakuen, Sapporo, Hokkaido
• Plenary Speaker: Marc Helgesen
• Saturday workshop: Tom Robb: Creating Moodle ER quizzes (Hokusei Gakuen University, 1 - 5 pm).
• The JALT Extensive Reading SIG and Hokkaido JALT.

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The 2nd Annual Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: Sunday, July 5th, 2009
• Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Place: Gogaku Center, Kinki University, Higashi Osaka City
• Plenary Speaker: Rob Waring
• Sponsors: The Extensive Reading SIG, and the Osaka and Kyoto Chapters of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).

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The Extensive Reading in Japan Seminar

• Date: Sunday, October 12th 2008
• Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (14:00-16:00)
• Place: Hiroshima City Plaza
• Chair and Co-chairs: Daniel Stewart, Bjorn Fuisting, Alison Kitzman & Myles Grogin
• Speakers: See below
• Sponsors: Co-sponsored by the JALT Extensive Reading SIG and the JALT Hiroshima Chapter.
• The ER Seminar is a chance for people in western Japan to see 4 of the 8 presentations from the ER Colloquium at the JALT2008 International Conference in Tokyo from October 31st to November 3rd.

1. Implementing Sustained Silent Reading campus-wide: issues and results
   Eleanor Kane - University of Shimane
2. Extensive reading and the low level university student
   Fiona MacGregor - Josai International University
3. Automating the Book Sign-out Process in an Extensive Reading Programme
   Daniel Stewart - Kaisei Academy
4. Motivating Reluctant Learners to Read Extensively with SSR
   Atsuko Takase - Kinki University