Successful Users of Xreading: Toward a Million Words

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on the background and performance of successful users of Xreading in one working context. The author works at a university that has been active in using paper-based and screen-based forms of Extensive Reading (ER) in a range of courses, and which has recently introduced a standardized paper-based ER program for first-year English language majors. This paper, however, considers ten successful screen-based readers who used Xreading, the online learner management system library, in successful ways within Supplementary ER (SER) programs. Triangulated data (performance data, questionnaire results, interviews) is called upon to investigate their success and to hypothesize on reasons for it. The paper concludes with a focus on three particularly successful users and includes one second-year placed in the lowest-level stream but who has read over 800,000 words in just over five months at the time of writing. She is poised to reach 1,000,000 words before the end of the academic year, 2019-2020.

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