- 著者
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田中 真由美
大湊 佳宏
土田 泰子
Tanaka Mayumi
Ominato Yoshihiro
Tsuchida Tasuko
- 出版者
- 長岡工業高等専門学校
- 雑誌
- 長岡工業高等専門学校研究紀要 (ISSN:00277568)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.45, no.2, pp.19-24, 2009-11
This paper reports the progress of the extensive reading project launched by the English language teaching staff at Nagaoka National College of Technology. The overall aims of this project are to develop a curriculum which incorporates extensive reading into the general English courses, and to examine its effectivenss through practical researches, in order to increase students English proficiency and promote their autonomous attitude towards studying English. As an initial undertaking of the project, extensive reading is being conducted this year mainly in the English reading course for first-year students. The result of the first six-week extensive reading shows that the amount of students reading depended on the teachers guidance and support. It is suggested that teachers need to provide students with a wide variety of support to motivate them to read out of class, in order to cope with the time limitation for in-class reading.