Successful Users of Xreading: Toward a Million Words
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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.
本書は、Xreadingの成功したユーザーの背景とパフォーマンスについて報告することを目的としています。 著者が働く大学は、紙ベースおよびスクリーンベース形式での多読を積極的に用いており、英語専攻の1年生に対しては、標準化された紙ベースの多読プログラムを最近開始しました。本書は、オンライン学習者管理システム(LMS)ライブラリーであるXreadingを使用した10人の成功したスクリーンベース読者に焦点を当てています。三方向からのデータ(パフォーマンスデータ、アンケート結果、インタビュー)を使用してユーザーを調査し、成功の理由を仮説化します。最後に、特に成功した3人のユーザーに焦点を当て締めくくります。これには、執筆時点でわずか5か月で80万語以上を読み、2019年から2020年の学年末までに1,000,000語に達する可能性があるユーザーが含まれます
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