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Extensive Reading - a short bibliography

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Brines, V (2001) Read on: the organisation of an extensive reading programme ( MET 10/3).

Campbell , N (1987) Adapted literary texts and the EFL reading programme ( ELT Journal 41/2)

Cuenca , C (1988) Exploiting easy readers ( Practical English Teaching 9/1)

Davis , C (1995) Extensive reading: an expensive extravagance ( ELT Journal 49/4 )

Day, R & Bamford, J (1998) Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press.

Greenwood , J (1987) Classroom Readers, Oxford University Press

Hafiz, F & Tudor, I (1989) Extensive reading and the development of language skills ( ELT Journal 43/1)

Hayes, B & Hammill, J (2002) Graded readers ( MET 11/2)

McLaughlin, P (1987) Supplementary Readers ( Practical English Teaching 8/2)

Pagano, N (1991) Fun with graded readers ( Practical English Teaching 12/2)

Prowse, P (1999) The secret of reading ( English Teaching professional 13)

Prowse, P (2000a) Open your books ( English Teaching professional 14)

Prowse, P (2000b) When the reading stops ( English Teaching professional 15)

Thornbury, S (2002) Books and readers, from How to teach vocabulary , Pearson Education

Watkins, P (2001) Getting the most from your graded reader ( English Teaching professional 21)

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