The Editor
Kieran McGovern is an author of
graded reading materials for English language learners. He
has written original stories and adaptations for most of
the major publishers in the field including Heinemann,
Oxford University Press, Longman and Penguin.
Three
of his titles were singled out for 'their particular
excellence' in Bamford and Day's
Extensive Reading in the Second Language
Classroom (Cambridge, 1998) where he was
described as being 'amongst the best writers of language
learner materials in English.’ He has also written
articles and reviews for magazines and journals including
Seven Days and IATEFL Voices.
Kieran was the BBC World Service Teacher Blogger for
August 2009
ESL Reading
provides free graded reading materials for English language
learners. It features in the recently published,
Tips
for Teaching with Call: Practical Approaches to Computer
-Assisted Languag Learning (2008,
Pearson/Longman).
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