q("Clicking the <span style='color: blue'>§§</span> symbol will show quotes from Krashen's books and articles. For example:<br><br>\"Free voluntary reading may be the most powerful tool we have in language education.\" (Krashen, 2003)");
q("My conclusions are simple. When children read for pleasure, when they get hooked on books, they acquire involuntarily and without conscious effort, nearly all of the so-called language skills many people are so concerned about: They will become adequate readers, acquire a large vocabulary, develop the ability to understand and use complex grammatical constructions, develop a good writing style and become good (but not necessarily) perfect spellers. (Krashen, 2004)");
q("A good start [to improving reading ability] is strengthening school libraries in high poverty areas: Children in the deepest levels of poverty have the lowest reading test scores, and also have very little access to books in the home, in school, and in their communities. Study after study confirms that increased access to books results in more reading and more reading results in better literacy development (research reviewed in Krashen, 2004). ");
q("There is no evidence that more testing leads to better achievement; in fact, there is tremendous evidence that it has the opposite effect, converting instruction into test-prep rather than real learning. (Krashen, 2009)");
q("Students from well-funded schools who come from high-income families outscore all or nearly all other countries on international tests. Only our children in high poverty schools score below the international average. The US has the highest percentage of children in poverty of all industrialized countries (25%, compared to Denmark's 3%). Our educational system has been successful; the problem is poverty. (Krashen, 2009)");
q(".. nearly all of our educated vocabulary, our ability to write coherently, our mastery of the conventions of writing, as well as a great deal of knowledge, including \"practical knowledge\", comes from wide reading. It is very difficult to teach these things as discrete items, and is often, in fact, impossible, because the systems to be mastered are too complex and large. Attempts to do this will dominate the curriculum and will drive out activities that help children the most. (Krashen, 1984)");
q("Krashen reports on a study in which \" .. college mathematics students who devoted three minutes per period to describing in writing an important concept easily outperformed a comparison group on the semester final exam.\" (Krashen, 2004)");
q("The amount of free reading reported is also a very good predictor of performance on the TOEFL examinition .. . (Krashen, 2004)");