{"id":6118,"date":"2018-01-15T06:27:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2018-01-15T06:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T06:27:49","slug":"free-whitepaper-extensive-reading-in-elt-why-and-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=6118","title":{"rendered":"Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambrige team has published a free white paper\u00a0&#8220;Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Laughran says, &#8220;Extensive reading is a useful practice that can manifest itself in different ways depending on the teacher and class, however it remains a relatively underused language teaching technique.\u00a0 Dr. Peter Watkins has created an\u00a0<a class=\"highlight_text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Extensive-Reading-whitepaper_72dpi.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extensive reading in ELT whitepaper<\/a>\u00a0as part of the\u00a0<a class=\"highlight_text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/campaign_page\/cambridge-papers-elt\/?utm_source=wobl&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_content=woblcontent&amp;utm_campaign=content\">Cambridge Papers in ELT<\/a>\u00a0series to discuss why extensive reading is important and how we can implement it in the classroom\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Characteristics of the reading activity<\/h3>\n<p>The paper is based around the 10 key principles you should keep in mind when considering such a task in the classroom.\u00a0 Find out why using a text with few unknown words is best and why students should choose their own texts.<\/p>\n<h3>The benefits<\/h3>\n<p>Why it\u2019s important for learners to undertake this type of reading and how they develop through an activity like this.\u00a0 Extensive reading not only supports reading skills development, but also language proficiency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/extensive-reading-elt-free-whitepaper\/\"><strong>Free whitepaper: Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambrige team has published a free white paper\u00a0&#8220;Extensive reading in ELT: Why and how?&#8221;. 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