Cristina Tat
Kwansei Gakuin University
Cristina Tat is an Assistant Lecturer of English in the School of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University. She is a graduate of Vassar College and City University of New York Baruch College. Her research interests include extensive reading, curriculum design, and comparative education.
Sessions
Students' Perceptions of an Extensive Reading Program
The presenters will discuss the results of a student survey aimed at evaluating a new extensive reading (ER) component that was introduced as part of an EAP program at a local university in Japan. Eighty-nine participants were surveyed after completing 20 weeks and the summer reading campaign of the ER course to gauge their engagement with the program. Questions were mainly aimed at discerning how students performed their extensive reading activities and how often and on what level they relied on translating from English to Japanese in the process.