EXTENSIVE READING FOR STEM CONFERENCE
THEME: EXTENSIVE READING FOR STEM EDUCATION
SUB-THEMES
- Adapting and simplifying ER materials for high school learners
- Impact of ER on learner’s attitudes and motivation towards reading
- Factors affecting individual selection and use of ER materials
- Effects of glossing on either physical or electronic texts
- Incidental acquisition of grammar competence through reading
- ER programs for schools: student orientation, setting up libraries, and post reading activities
- Use of electronic reading materials: selection, use and challenges of online reading
- ER in the teaching of languages other than English
- Learner Autonomy ER and learner responsibility and initiative
- Relationship between Extensive Reading and STEM education
- The role of ER in improving reading ability
- ER and speed: Improving and measuring speed through ER
- ER and language learner literature
- ER for academic purposes in high school and tertiary education
- ER methods and techniques
- Selection of ER materials: The Graded Readers
- Student made reading materials
- Effect of socio-cultural issues on ER practices
- Impact of stakeholder attitudes on ER programs: Teachers, administration and parents
- Student-student collaboration in ER
- Incidental acquisition of vocabulary through ER
- Impact of ER on learners writing ability
- ER programs for young learners
- Implementing ER in STEM education
- Role of ER in STEM education
- Benefits and challenges of physical and digital libraries in promoting ER
- ER and the English curriculum: exploring students ER comprehension
- Principles and Practices of ER
- Approaches to using the short story in the ER classroom
- Engaging learners into a reciprocal community of readers on the internet
- Using M-Reader and Xreading for ER
- ER Motivation for reluctant and young readers