This is Professor Thomas Robb from Kyoto Sangyo University, and he is one of the world's renowned experts on extensive graded reading. 
Q: Tell us. Why should students do extensive reading?
Dr. Robb: Why? Because it works. I've done it for Japanese as well.
Really?
Yeah. So I chose a mystery novel writer and I read 35 of his books.
Really? In Japanese?
In Japanese, right. And of course, one nice thing about doing extensive reading, with say the same series, is that the same c...