#26 ER and the use of the first language: An interview with Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
Last August we went to Kyoto Sangyo University to interview Professor Amanda Gillis-Furutaka. She has been teaching there for over twenty ye...
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20 of 26 episodes#25 Voices on future research on ER
We have dedicated our 25th episode to the future of ER research. There are so many things that we still don’t know about ER that it is not e...
#24: An interview with Marcos Benevides
There are so many ways in which Tokyo Oberlin University Professor Marcos Benevides, our guest for our 24th episode, is connected with ER th...
#23: The symbiotic relationship between intentional vocabulary learning and ER: An interview with Charles Browne
I first saw Dr. Charles Browne a few months ago at JALT’s PanSIG in Tokyo. He was giving a talk in a room that was almost as packed as a Jap...
#22 The Foundations Reading Library. An interview with Rob Waring (part II)
In the second part of our interview with Dr. Rob Waring, he tells us about his experiences as author and editor of graded readers in general...
#21: The mathematics of language scream at us. An interview with Rob Waring
Whenever we asked our guests for tips on who to interview next, Dr. Rob Waring’s name popped up almost immediately. When we asked Paul Goldb...
#20 Chinese Graded Readers and ER in Chinese
After a long break that we took following the beginning of the academic year in Japan, we are back with a new episode and a new interview. T...
#19: Cheating in extensive reading programmes
For our nineteenth episode we have an interview with professors Naeko Naganuma and Patrick Daugherty, from Akita International University, i...
#18: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part II)
In the second part of the interview, Professor Nation discusses different ways of doing extensive reading depending on whether one’s target...
#17: ER and the Four Strands. Interview with Paul Nation (Part I)
Professor Paul Nation, our guest for this and the following episode, needs no introduction. His name has been recurrently popping up in prev...
#16: From theory to practice. ER in a secondary school in Malaysia. Interview with Navinder Kaur
Our guest for this episode is an English teacher in a secondary school in Malaysia who has been using extensive reading in her classes for m...
#15 ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part II)
Our previous episode featured the first part of our interview with long-time promoter of ER in Japanese Dr. Tabata-Sandom, which dealt mostl...
#14: ER in Japanese. Interview with Dr. Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (Part I)
“Anyone can learn to read fluently in Japanese” In this episode we start to explore a promising territory that has been tempting us for a lo...
#13: Reading aloud to students. An interview with George Jacobs
Reading aloud is often seen as a little more than a resource that can be used when the students’ level is too low for them to do extensive r...
#12: Altruistic extensive reading: The Readers4Readers Project
We recorded our last episode of the year with professors Kevin Ramsden and Aaron Campbell in a very nice studio at Kyoto University of Forei...
#11: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part II)
We are back after our one-week break with an episode that continues to deal with editing and adapting graded readers. Nick Bullard, long-tim...
#10: Graded reader editing and adaptations. Interview with Nick Bullard (Part I)
Do you know when your favorite author died? Our guest probably does! In our tenth episode, we bring you part one of our two part interview w...
#9: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part II)
Don’t call them characters. Call them people. Our ninth episode features the second part of the interview we had with Dr. Antoinette Moses,...
#8: Interview with Antionette Moses (Part I)
I think it’s important that stories reflect the world in which young people live. Welcome to the eighth episode of the ER Podcast. After hav...
#7: Interview with Atsuko Takase (Part II)
For our seventh episode we have the second part of the interview that Professor Atsuko Takase gave us. She tells us about teachers’ motivati...