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Автор Richard B. Day

Bringing Extensive Reading Into the Classroom

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Notes on contributors

Richard Day is Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii.

He is co-editor of the journal, Reading in a Foreign Language, and chairman of the Extensive Reading Foundation. His recent publications include Cover to Cover 1–3 (OUP 2009). Dr Day is engaged in a study of the effects of timed-repeated reading on fluency and comprehension.

Jennifer Bassett is the series editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library. For over twenty years she has been writing, editing, and thinking about stories for English language learners. Her publications include about forty original and retold graded readers. Her abiding interests are storytelling within a reduced code, and searching for good stories from every corner of the world.