extensive reading for rural school malaysia

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The more you

readthe better reader

you become


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Promoting English language development

and the reading habit among students inthe rural schools

What is extensive reading ?

How would extensive reading help students inrural schools?


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What is extensive?

Having great extent; covering a large area; vast

or having a wide scope, effect, influence, etc.;

far-reaching; comprehensive

What is reading ?

Readingis a complex cognitive processof

decoding symbolsin order to construct or derivemeaning (reading comprehension). It is a meansof language acquisition, of communication, andof sharing informationand ideas.
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Factors inextensivereading

motivation

studentschoice

The materials

(books)

teachersmodeling


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How would extensive reading

help students in rural schools?

The Guided Extensive Reading

Program(GER Program)


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What is GER Program?

It was adapted from Hsui's (2000) GuidedIndependent Reading (GIR) Program.

She suggests that, "may be used as a supplementary

reading program in upper primary (5th

and 6th

grade)and lower secondary (7thto 9thgrade)classrooms.for students who can read with varyingdegrees of proficiency, but who generally will notread for various reasons, such as failure to develop alove for reading, unavailability of appropriatereading materials, insufficient time to readextensively because of school demands, and lack ofmotivation to read extensively"


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How does it really help?

Unmotivated students1. GER needs to be conducted in a relaxed, informal,

classroom atmosphere.

2. Students' reading progress is monitored and

reinforced by giving words of praise and

encouragement or by awarding them "stars", etc.,

for books read.

3. Students are given the opportunity to choose thebooks that they would like to read.


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Teachers role

1. The teachers need to be well-informed about

the books and reading materials that wouldappeal to their students.

2. The teacher focuses on helping students to read

for pleasure.3. The program needs to be conducted on a regular

basis.

4. Established routines, aimed at inculcating thereading habit and love of reading among students,are an important part of the program.

5. The teacher should be a role model of a reader.


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Lack of vocabulary

1. Students are encouraged to retell, to the class,

the stories they had read.

The materials

1. The reading materials should be within the

students' level of competency.


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The aims of the GER program

1. The GER program is aimed at motivatingstudents to read extensively -- to read asmany books as possible, and to be excitedabout reading.

2. It is thus aimed at having students read

books for pleasure.


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Features of the program

The teachers need to be well-informed aboutthe books and reading materials that wouldappeal to their students.

GER needs to be conducted in a relaxed,

informal, classroom atmosphere, where theteacher focuses on helping students read forpleasure.

The reading materials should be within thestudents' level of competency.

Students are given the opportunity to choosethe books that they would like to read.


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The program needs to be conducted on aregular basis.

Established routines; aimed at inculcating thereading habit and love of reading amongstudents are an important part of the

program. Students are encouraged to retell, to the

class, the stories they had read.

Students' reading progress is monitored andreinforced by giving words of praise and

encouragement or by awarding them "stars",etc., for books read.


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Method of Data Gathering

Finally, open-ended, in-depth interviews were carried out toobtain the views of the teachers and students .

Later, in the "Results" section, we present the selectedobservations, reflections, and comments of the teachers and

students.

Firstly, data were gathered from in-depth classroom

observations of the Guided Extensive Reading Program sessions


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The success of a reading program

depends on several

factors:-

Students To monitor their

reading.

Program The program is

organized andimplemented.

Teachers

Teachers feel aboutextensive reading.

to motivate thestudents to read.


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Conclusion

The results of this study suggest thatstudents in rural schools can and do benefitfrom extensive reading.

The majority of the students in the study ofsuch programmes have developed positiveattitudes towards reading in English and helpin boosting their English acquisition.

Longitudinal studies should be carried out todetermine the effect of extensive reading onstudents' language proficiency in Malaysia.


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