Development and Promulgation of Extensive Reading-Extensive Listening Approach in the Classroom

本项目是作者在2003 - 2004年获得资助的以广泛阅读为重点的项目的延伸。新的重点是广泛的听力，在课堂内外，使用CD材料和DVD电影。2006学年结束时，基本的指导方针已经确定;不要关注细节，跳过你不理解的单词和段落，如果材料不适合你的口味或水平，就停止听。学生们开始为幼儿园的孩子们阅读图画书，并在2008学年继续阅读了数百本书。他们开始读英语书，而不把它们翻译成日语。同样，广泛的听力也从最简单的图画书的CD开始，逐渐达到更高的水平。在广泛的阅读，每个学生听自己选择的材料与便携式CD播放器。由于录音和文本，一些更先进的学生达到了每分钟150字左右的阅读速度。普通的UEC学生在阅读英语书籍时，每分钟的阅读量还达不到50个单词，因此，这是向不翻译成日语的阅读迈出的重要一步。关于普及，自2005年3月本书作者共同出版《教室里的阅读一百万个单词》以来，广泛的阅读已逐渐普及到日本的初高中和大学。本文作者曾到过很多地方，做过讲座，参加过研讨会，并观察过进行广泛阅读的实际课堂

The present project is an extention of the present author's previous project whose focus was on Extensive Reading and was awarded the present grant from 2003 to 2004.The new emphasis has been on Extensive Listening, in and out of the classroom, using CD materials and films on dvd's. The basis guidelines had been established at the end of the academic year 2006 ; Don't focus on details, Skip over words and passages you don't understand, and Stop listening if the material doesn't suit your taste or level. The students started reading picturebooks for kindergarten children, and went on to read several hundred books during the academic year 2008. They start to read English books without translating them into Japanese. Likewise, Extensive Listening also starts with recorded CDs of the easiest picturebooks, leading gradually to upper levels. As in Extensive Reading, each students listen to materials of their own choice with a portable CD player.. Some of the more advanced students achieved reading speeds of around 150 words per minute, thanks to the recording and the text. Since average UEC students would not reach 50 words per minute when they simply read an English book, this is a significant step toward reading without translating into Japanese.As for promulgation, since the joint-publication by the present author of Reading One Million Words in the Classroom in March 2005, Extensive Reading has been gradually spreading to junior and senior high schools and universities around Japan. The present author has traveled widely giving lectures and workshops and observing actual classes conducting Extensive Reading