Fifty Ways to Practice Reading: Tips for ESL/EFL Students

Belinda Young-Davy

May 2016 · Fifty Ways to Practice: Tips for ESL/EFL Students Book 1 · Wayzgoose Press

About this eBook

This book is made for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language.

***revised and updated for 2023!***

Learn 50 ways to practice and improve reading skills! By applying these methods, you will read faster and better, and remember information longer.

The book is divided into six sections:

1. Good Habits

2. Finding Reading Material

3. Reading Strategies

4. Handling Vocabulary

5. Working with Longer Texts

6. Reading for Pleasure

You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to study and learn more effectively.

About the author

 Belinda Young-Davy (Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Oregon; M.A. Linguistics, University of Oregon) has experience teaching English in Mexico, Japan, and the United States. Her professional interests include acquisition of prepositions and other semantically based aspects of language learning; and ESL in higher education assessment, with an emphasis on writing and teacher training. She is a member of ORTESOL, TESOL, and the Linguistic Society of America.