All levels Practice and Strategies Presentation
Scholars speak out: Voices from the field (International)
To promote the “extensive reading approach” worldwide, the Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) invites teachers and scholars to apply for a scholarship in order to take part in the ERWC for their own professional development and for the future promotion of Extensive Reading in their home countries. This session features individual presentations by the 3 scholarship recipients from outside of Indonesia with an overview of the issues and challenges faced in their contexts followed by their plans for carrying forward in implementing & growing extensive reading.
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Nguyen Thi Hong Ha is a lecturer in the Department of English for Specific Purposes, University of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Hue University, Vietnam. She is teaching general English to non-English majors from A1 to B1 level and students of English majors. Her research interests are Professional Development, Teaching and Researching Young Language Learners, and Corpus Linguistics. She was a finalist of the A.S. Hornby Trust scholarship in 2019 and studied MA TESOL at the University of Warwick from 2021 to 2022.
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Dr Sibhekinkosi Anna Nkomo is a lecturer in the Foundation Phase Division in the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is an early literacy specialist and an advocate of quality education, particularly with respect to children in disadvantaged communities as a way of addressing the existing educational inequalities through implementing reading interventions. Her research interests broadly include literacy, emergent literacy development in third spaces, bi/multilingual education, multiculturalism, multi-literacies and multi-modality, as she views language and literacy as a social practice. She has published several research articles, book chapters and research reports in these research areas.
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Dr Havva Kurt Taşpınar has been teaching English since 2000, she has mostly taught at tertiary level. She has also served in many leading roles. She received her BA from Anadolu University in English Language Teaching (ELT), her MA from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and her PhD in ELT from Dokuz Eylül University. Her MA thesis was on motivation, and her dissertation was on critical literacy. Her research interests include applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, critical thinking, creative thinking, motivation, and grit in foreign language learning.
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Greg Rouault is an Associate Professor at Hiroshima Shudo University. He has a Master of Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University and has taught EFL in Japan for over 20 years. His research interests include ER & reading literacy, business English, and experiential task-based learning with simulations. International publications have appeared in System, TESOL Quarterly, The Reading Matrix, and several Asian-based journals.