Extensive Reading Podcast

Episode #2: Mark Brierley on Running an ER Programme Welcome to the second episode of the Extensive Reading Podcast. In this episode we interview ER enthusiast and long-time practitioner Mark Brierley, from JALT's Special Interest Group in Extensive in Reading, who tells us about why graded readers should always be present in the language classroom, how to build up large-scale library of graded readers, and how to keep an extensive reading programme started and running for many years. Also in this episode we start Continuing the Debate, a new section in which we will be discussing opposing points on view on second language acquisition, teaching and learning. This week Travis introduces Merril Swain's Output Hypothesis, nothing less.