MAKING EXTENSIVE READING EVEN MORE STUDENT CENTERED

Abstract

Abstract: This article begins by explaining the student centered learning paradigm. Next, the article explains various features of a student centered approach to education and how extensive reading (ER), as it is most often practiced, fits with those features. The bulk of the article suggests how ER might be implemented to make it even more learner centered.

Keywords

• extensive reading, learner centered, paradigm, schema, positivism, post-positivism