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

本项目是作者在2003年至2004年期间所做的“泛读”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上的电影。基本指引已于2006学年结束时制订；不要关注细节，跳过你不懂的单词和段落，如果材料不符合你的品味或水平，就停止听。学生们开始为幼儿园的孩子们阅读绘本，并在2008学年期间阅读了数百本书。他们开始阅读英文书籍而不把它们翻译成日语。同样地，广泛聆听也从最简单的绘本cd开始，逐渐进入更高的水平。和泛读一样，每个学生用便携式CD播放器听自己选择的材料。得益于录音和课文，一些水平较高的学生达到了每分钟150个单词左右的阅读速度。由于普通的UEC学生在阅读英语书籍时每分钟无法达到50个单词，因此这是朝着不翻译成日语的阅读迈出的重要一步。在传播方面，自2005年3月由现任作者联合出版的《在课堂上阅读一百万字》开始，泛读逐渐在日本各地的初高中和大学中普及开来。作者游历各地，举办讲座和研讨会，并观察实际课堂进行泛读

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