Annotated Bibliography of Works on Extensive Reading in a Second Language
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| Julian BAMFORD | Bunkyo University; bamford@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp | [1999-] |
| Meng Huat CHAU | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; chaumenghuat@hotmail.com | [2002-] |
| George M JACOBS | JF New Paradigm Education; gmjacobs@pacific.net.sg | [1998-] |
| Willy A RENANDYA | SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC); willyr@relc.org.sg | [1998-] |
| Thomas N ROBB | Kyoto Sangyo University; trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp | [2000-] |
Revised, January 2005
Introduction
In this bibliography, we have attempted to compile references and abstracts for works of various kinds related to the use of extensive reading in second language education. The term second language is intended to include foreign language. A small number of works on heritage language education are included. A heritage language can be defined as a language not used by the dominant culture, but used by the family or associated with the culture of the students' heritage.
We compiled the bibliography, first of all, for ourselves, because we knew it would be useful for our own research, programme development, academic publications, conference papers and workshops, and courses we teach for teachers and for second language learners. Also, we hope it will save us time when people ask us about extensive reading. If the bibliography would benefit us, perhaps others too would benefit.
When it came to deciding what to include in the bibliography, our key criterion was accessibility. For this reason we did not include dissertations and conference papers unless available via ERIC or Proquest (formally University Microfilms). The serial number of dissertations available via Proquest are listed starting with the abbreviation "UMI".
This bibliography is an on-going project that will, with your kind assistance, be updated at irregular intervals. We welcome feedback and additions. If you wish to suggest an addition, we would appreciate it if you could send us a copy of the document at the addresses above and try your hand at writing an abstract if one is not already included. Also, we are actively seeking people to join us in maintaining the bibliography. Please contact us if you are interested.
The abstracts came from five sources:
- When there was no abstract and we wrote one, this was noted by *. These abstracts may incorporate the authors' words.
- When there was no abstract and we used the introduction to the piece, some part thereof, or something from another part of the work as the abstract, this was noted by **.
- When the abstract came from ERIC, this was noted by ***. To search the ERIC Database and order ERIC Documents ERIC on the Internet visit their Website at http://edrs.com.
- When the author wrote an abstract especially for this bibliography, this was noted by ****.
- When an abstract accompanied the article, chapter, paper, or book, that abstract was used. No asterisk accompanies such abstracts.
We realize that those educationists without access to well-stocked libraries will still have difficulties obtaining all the works included in the bibliography. We have thus made an attempt to include works that might be difficult to find for most educators interested in extensive reading. These works are indicated by a #. For a copy of such works, email Julian Bamford at bamford@shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp. Tell him your address and how you wish the copy to be mailed (express, standard airmail, surface mail). He will inform you of any copying and mailing charges.
Email addresses of authors of works in this bibliography, as of May 1999, are available here.
How to view the bibliography
There are several ways to access the bibliography:
- Click here to display the entire bibliography (280kb) in chronological order or alphabetical order by author, so you can scroll through all the abstracts.
- If searching for abstracts by a particular author or in a specific year, enter either the author's surname or the year (as 4 digits) in the search window, then click "Display".
- Enter a word or two from the title. Titles containing that exact word or phrase will be displayed.
- Use the subject index below to view individual or groups of abstracts. In the subject index, click on an individual item to display its abstract.
- Place a check mark in one or more subject index categories, then click "Display" or "D" to display all the abstracts in those categories.
Subject Index
To make it easier to find works on topics of interest, we have categorized the works in the bibliography by topics. (The works in italics report or review empirical investigations.)
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