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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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