Abstract
The class reported on here is an "extensive reading class" for foreign students from an advanced beginners' level to the start of the intermediate level. The course had two major objectives: (1) acquiring a natural rhythm of Japanese reading by reading many easy Japanese-language books. (2) deepen the students' reading comprehension through various activities representing the "situation model" that they have constructed. The activities included individual reading, selecting their favorite books and introducing them to their classmates, writing a fictional diary of one of the characters, writing a letter to the author.
