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Richard
R. Day is a professor in the Department of Second Language Studies,
College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai’i. His
areas of specialization include second language reading, second language
teacher education, curriculum design, and materials development. Dr. Day is
a co-editor of Reading in a Foreign
Language and is Chairman and co-founder of
the Extensive Reading Foundation.
While he has written numerous articles and book chapters, his most
influential publications are on extensive reading. Professor Day was the co-author, with
Julian Bamford, of Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom (Cambridge
University Press), which helped draw attention to extensive reading. Bamford and he later edited Extensive
Reading Activities for Teaching Language (also published by Cambridge),
a collection of 106 activities that are concerned with extensive
reading. The royalties of this
book are donated to the Extensive Reading Foundation to help support
extensive reading programs in needy countries.
Dr.
Day is the co-author of the very popular Impact Issues, Books 1, 2
and 3, published by Longman.
These innovative English language teaching materials feature topics of
high interest to learners of English as a foreign language (e.g., sex before
marriage, a woman’s role in society, abortion, homosexuality, spouse
abuse, male-female relationships, capital punishment, the environment, and
war).
Professor
Day is also the co-author of a three-level reading course for Oxford University Press, Cover to Cover. One of the unique features of Cover
to Cover is the integration of reading strategies, vocabulary
development, and extensive reading.
He
has been a visiting professor at Ubon
Rajathanee University, Thailand, Ha Noi University
of Foreign Studies, Vietnam,
Assumption University, Thailand, and Ashiya University, Japan. Dr. Day is in constant demand as a
speaker and has presented workshops in China, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, India,
Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. In 2006, he was awarded the
Pearson-Malaysian International Conference of English Language Teachers Award
for excellent contributions to the field of English language teaching. He has
served on the editorial boards of the TESOL Quarterly and TESL
Reporter.
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