Willy A Renandya
About
Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches language education courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He maintains an ELT website: Willy's ELT Corner that contains free resources for ELT professionals and researchers.Sessions
All levels Are good readers good writers too? more
Wed, Aug 9, 16:15-16:50 Asia/Tokyo
Students who read a great deal become better and more confident readers. But the effect of reading on students’ writing is less clear: students who are good readers continue to find writing challenging. In my presentation, I will first discuss the nature of the relationship between reading and writing and then explore how this relationship can be strengthened. I will then offer practical tips on how teachers can help students benefit from more focused reading, i.e., the kind of reading that enables students to notice language features and discourse rules found in texts. When students do this regularly, there is a good chance that they might become better readers and writers.
School Extending extensive reading panel: Perspectives from Singapore more
Tue, Aug 8, 16:00-17:20 Asia/Tokyo
Research has demonstrated the importance of extensive reading for supporting students’ development as proficient and engaged readers. Among the ten principles listed by Day & Bamford (2002), the presence of interesting texts, the importance of choice, reading for pleasure and reading as much as possible are key elements to encourage students’ independent reading. Given worldwide concern about students’ seeming decline in reading, it is important to consider ways to revitalise practices of extensive reading in schools for both children and adolescents. This panel proposes to extend ways to encourage extensive reading through the use of children’s literature, book clubs, e-resources, and school libraries. In this panel, the presenters will share about how to motivate students’ extensive reading through (1) selective curation of quality children’s literature, (2) conducting online book clubs, and (3) stocking the school library with quality resources for adolescent readers.
All levels ERWC6 Final Panel more
Thu, Aug 10, 18:00-18:50 Asia/Tokyo
The plenary speakers will share their observations on the major concerns they noticed concerning the future of extensive reading and extensive listening. Time permitting, questions will be taken from the audience.
