Dr. Rob Waring, is Emeritus Professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama. He is an acknowledged expert in Extensive Reading and vocabulary acquisition. He has published over 60 articles and has given hundreds of lectures, plenaries and featured speaker presentations in 32 countries. He is an Executive Board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation responsible for the promotion of Extensive Reading globally. He is also author and series editor of a six series of graded readers by various publishers and has recently published "Teaching Extensive Reading in Another Language" with Paul Nation.

Associate Professor, Bunkyo Gakuin University

Born in the US. Raised in Japan. Live in Japan. Teach in Japan. Growing up in Japan, going to Japanese school, having only Japanese friends meant that my main sources of English were at home with my family and the books that were assigned to me by my parents. It was the extensive amount of reading in my childhood that laid the foundation for an career in academia and business that required conversational and academic English. I started my own English school a few years ago with ER as the core part of the curriculum. The school has grown to 60 students, most of which do ER on a regular basis. My students and my own career are proof that ER works! :)

Ho Le Thanh Phuong has been a lecturer at Mien Tay Construction University since 2013 and she works as a lecturer in the English Section. She holds a Master's Degree in TESOL from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh city. Her research interests are in the areas of teaching and learning a foreign language in The Industrial Revolution 4.0; extensive reading and online learning development.

Atsuko Takase is a teacher at Iwano Private English School in Japan. She received an Ed.D. in TESOL. Her research interests include extensive reading /listening (ER/EL), motivation to ER/EL, and language acquisition through ER/EL. After having practiced ER/EL at high schools and universities for 30 years, she is now practicing ER/EL on students at various age groups such as children (aged 9 to 11), junior and senior high school students, and adults.

Shinshu University. Extensive Reading. Low energy building.