Top Ten Principles for Teaching Extensive Reading

By R. Day. Reading in a Foreign Language, 2002

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This article puts forward ten principles for an extensive reading approach to teaching reading. They deal with the nature of extensive reading and the conditions and methodology necessary for its success. In the interests of professional development, the authors encourage teachers to use the principles as a tool to examine their beliefs about reading in general and extensive reading in particular, and the ways they teach reading.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Stuart Webb
2. Hiroya Tanaka
3. J. Yamashita
4. Paul Stapleton
5. N. Schmitt
6. E. Peters
7. A. Pellicer‐Sánchez
8. Irina Elgort

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Stuart Webb
2. Hiroya Tanaka
3. J. Yamashita
4. Paul Stapleton
5. E. Peters

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of extensive reading on reading attitudes in a foreign language (2013, background): “…benefits such as pleasure or new knowledge; students often read at a faster pace because they can choose materials of interest for them at an appropriate level of difficulty; and teachers become model readers, guiding the students rather than teaching them explicitly (see Day & Bamford, 2002).”
• Extensive Viewing: Language Learning Through Watching Television (2015, background): “11 Encouraging learners to watch as much L2 television as possible draw’s on Day and Bamford’s (2002) 10 principles for extensive reading (see also Chapter 1).”
• INCREASING READING INPUT IN JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL EFL CLASSROOMS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF EXTENSIVE READING (2007, methodology): “The guidelines featured in the “Top Ten Principles of Extensive Reading” by Day and Bamford (2002) were distributed to the students.”