Using a Learning Management System to Enhance an Extensive Reading Program

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Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Majors (Students); Integrated Learning Systems; Reading Programs; Reading Instruction; Teaching Methods; Reading Achievement; Electronic Libraries

The Extensive Reading (ER) approach to second language acquisition is increasingly one of the methods of choice amongst English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators around the world. This method requires learners to read a large volume of easily comprehensible text, and teachers to track and manage their students' progress in some manner. There are several different ways to monitor and assess student compliance with, and participation in an ER program, and this paper highlights the features and benefits of the world's only purpose-built Learning Management System (LMS) and integrated digital library designed specifically for ER students and practitioners. Participants (n = 146) in the ER program for which the LMS is employed are first- and second-year Japanese university students majoring in English literature or linguistics. This ER program currently requires all participants to read a minimum of 540,000 words over the two years. An efficient method of managing this somewhat challenging requirement is provided by the LMS described in the following article. [For the complete volume, see ED578177.]

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