School School Workshop
Extending extensive reading panel: Perspectives from Singapore
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.
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I am an Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) at the English Language and Literature Academic Group at NIE, NTU. You can find out more about my research and teaching at https://www.lohchinee.com.
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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.
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Gan Sujia is a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Education (NIE) Singapore. Her research interest lies in children’s literature, and she is especially interested in metafiction and what the experimental genre affords. For her PhD research study, Sujia is currently investigating how children respond to metafictive children’s novels in book club settings. Her research project also further explores how metafiction can potentially encourage the development of global competencies in students as they read and respond to these complex texts.
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I am a teacher educator and researcher in the areas of English language learning for young and adolescent learners, critical literacy, inquiry-based learning and children's literature.