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Download full textJane E. Hardy; Victoria Rodrigo – Dimensions, 2025
Extensive reading is an approach to language learning that encourages learners to read a large quantity of easy reading material. A substantial body of research confirms the effectiveness of this approach for developing proficiency in both first (L1) and second (L2) languages. This paper explains what extensive reading is, why it is important, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Habits, Reading Materials
Direct linkMarianne – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2011
This article presents and analyzes qualitative ethnographic data from research investigating intensive reading in an English Second Language high school class. It focuses on selected teacher-student interactions and considers the effect of these interactions in terms of the processes and products of students' intensive study of a fiction text. The…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Teacher Student Relationship, English (Second Language), High School Students
