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Investigating Teacher Attitudes to Extensive Reading Practices in Higher Education: Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?
- John Macalister (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) -

This research is based on interviews conducted with 36 teachers involved in college preparation courses at language centers in New Zealand. The interviews were designed to investigate teacher attitudes to and current practice of extensive reading in higher educational contexts. The findings show that while teachers expressed positive beliefs about the language learning benefits of extensive reading, these beliefs were generally not reflected in their actual classroom programs. The results reflect the realities of the current educational contexts. Therefore, according Macalister, to facilitate further implementation of extensive reading more widely in higher educational contexts- teacher education, new research, changes in course design, raising awareness among administrators and managers, and improved resource provision are needed.

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