From Extensive Reading to Creative Writing:

An Extensive Reading Course Targeting Intermediate-Level Japanese Language Students

Abstract

In an extensive reading course, in which reading is emphasized, incorporating opportunities for students to express themselves and communicate with each other in class is challenging. Therefore, the author introduced a final course project in which students themselves created books for extensive reading. This experience provided the students an opportunity to creatively use the knowledge they acquired through extensive reading. Consequently, the students expressed themselves on various themes using various methods.