Investigating Teacher Attitudes to Extensive Reading Practices in Higher Education: Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?  

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Macalister, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 41 no. 1 (Apr. 2010), page 59-75.
Topik: attitudes; classroom practice; extensive reading; higher education; teacher cognition; teacher education
Fulltext: Vol 41, no (1), page 59–75.pdf (371.14KB)

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This paper reports on interviews conducted with 36 teachers involved in university preparation courses at language teaching centres in New Zealand. The interviews were designed to investigate teacher attitudes to extensive reading in higher educational contexts, and current practice in such contexts. While teachers expressed positive beliefs about the language learning benefits of extensive reading, these beliefs did not generally result in the inclusion of extensive reading in the classroom programme. This may reflect the realities of the wider educational context. If extensive reading is to be more widespread in higher educational contexts, it needs to be promoted through teacher education, new research, changes in course design, raising awareness among administrators and managers, and improved resource provision.

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