Extensive Reading World Congress 8 11 - 13 June 2027
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Welcome to the Extensive Reading World Congress 8 website
We are delighted to invite readers, teachers, researchers, publishers, and educational leaders from around the world to Bangkok for ERWC8, hosted by Chulalongkorn University in collaboration with the Thailand Extensive Reading Association and the Extensive Reading Foundation. The main conference will be held from 11 to 13 June 2027. Under the theme Smiles and Stories: Welcoming a World of Readers, the congress will celebrate the power of extensive reading to connect people, open minds, and build joyful reading communities across languages and cultures. We look forward to welcoming you to Thailand for a rich and inspiring international gathering.
Plenary Speakers
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Fenty Lidya Siregar
Universitas Kristen Maranatha (Maranatha Christian University)
Fenty Lidya Siregar is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Creative Industries at Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Indonesia. She holds a Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and currently serves as Chair of the Indonesian Extensive Reading Association. Her research focuses on extensive reading, intercultural communicative competence, teacher wellbeing and burnout, and English as a medium of instruction in multilingual higher education contexts.
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Thomas Robb
Kyoto Sangyo University
Thomas Robb, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto Sangyo University, where he served as Chair of the Department of English in the Faculty of Foreign Languages. He is a founding member and current Chair of the Extensive Reading Foundation. An active practitioner of extensive reading since the mid-1980s, he created mreader.org, a website for Extensive Reading which currently serves approximately 40,000 students in over 40 countries. He is a former President of JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching) and a founding member and past president of PacCALL. He is Editor-in-Chief of TESL-EJ, the first online ELT journal, and serves on the editorial board of the Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal, from which he has received a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Mintra Puripunyavanich
Chulalongkorn University Language Institute (CULI)
Mintra Puripunyavanich, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of English in the Division of English for Business at the Chulalongkorn University Language Institute (CULI), where she also serves as Assistant to the Deputy Director for Research. She is the founding Chair of the Thailand Extensive Reading Association (TERA) and currently serves on the Executive Board of the Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF). She has managed a large-scale online extensive reading program, onboarding over 5,000 students and 60 university lecturers. Her research interests include extensive reading, second language (L2) reading, and materials development. She has published on extensive reading in both national and international contexts.