Doreen Ewert
About
Doreen Ewert is Professor Emerita in the Department of Rhetoric & Language at the University of San Francisco, and Professor in the MA TESOL program at LCC International University in Lithuania. She is also an accreditation site representative for Commission on English Language Program Accreditation. Her areas of research include SL/FL literacy development and assessment, vocabulary development, Extensive Reading, and fluency development.Sessions
All Levels ER and Vocabulary Development: Implicit and Explicit Classroom Methods more
The benefits of Extensive Reading (ER) for vocabulary development are well established in theory and research (Boutorwick et al, 2019; Suk, 2017; Webb and Change, 2015a and 2015b). ER is fundamentally an implicit approach to increasing reading rate, reading comprehension, and vocabulary size. As such its impact is not easily measured over short periods of time or without considering the role of many others types of L2 input for the learners. Vocabulary, on the other hand, can also be taught explicitly and measured for at least some forms of acquisition, quickly and easily. This presentation provides a model for combining both explicit and implicit methods of vocabulary learning, including use of the New General Service List, Vocabprofiler and diagnostic tests from Lextutor.ca, flash cards, structured review, and individualized quizzes to target high frequency vocabulary learning.