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Lessons Learned while Managing my First Book Club

Author(s) -

Holly Marland

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

studies in self-access learning journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.178

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 2185-3762

DOI - 10.37237/020105

Subject(s) - club , pleasure , conversation , reading (process) , promotion (chess) , pedagogy , autonomy , mathematics education , public relations , psychology , political science , medicine , communication , politics , anatomy , neuroscience , law

Extensive reading has become a popular way to promote language development. I had long wanted to introduce my students to pleasure reading as a means to improve their English, but because I was only teaching conversation courses, I saw no opportunity to do so. However, last semester, I decided to start an extracurricular book club, and it has been one of the most rewarding projects I have ever undertaken. The club was successful on many levels including the promotion of learner autonomy. This article is about the steps I took and the lessons I learned in the process of managing my first book club during one semester at a university in South Korea.

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