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

本项目是作者上一个项目的延伸，该项目的重点是广泛阅读，并在2003年至2004年获得了目前的资助。新的重点是在教室内外广泛倾听，使用CD材料和DVD上的电影。基本指导方针是在2006学年结束时制定的；不要关注细节，跳过你不理解的单词和段落，如果材料不符合你的品味或水平，就停止听。学生们开始阅读幼儿园儿童的图画书，并在2008学年继续阅读数百本书。他们开始阅读英语书籍，而不是把它们翻译成日语。同样，广泛的倾听也从最简单的图画书的CD开始，逐渐达到更高的水平。和泛读一样，每个学生都用便携式CD播放机收听他们自己选择的材料。由于录音和课文，一些更高级的学生达到了每分钟约150个单词的阅读速度。由于UEC学生简单地阅读一本英文书，平均每分钟不会达到50个单词，这是朝着不翻译成日语阅读的方向迈出了重要的一步。至于传播，自2005年3月本书作者与《在课堂上阅读一百万个单词》联合出版以来，泛读已逐步推广到日本各地的初中、高中和大学。笔者广泛游历各地，举办讲座和研讨会，实地观摩课堂，进行广泛阅读

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