The study looked into the perceptions of EFL instructors working at schools foreign languages various universities throughout Turkey in order to better understand effects Online Extensive Reading (OER) on language learning and difficulties regarding its implementation. A mixed-type descriptive design was used achieve aim study, data were collected through semi-structured interviews an online qu...

Attentive reading is a complex and cognitively demanding task that uses note-taking and annotation to support the reader's interpretation of the document. When reading on paper, extensive use of highlighting and other activities are conducted to support the reading process, but this rich behaviour is not used with digital documents. Many users therefore print digital documents and then interact...

After reading Robb and Kano’s (2013) study, I was impressed with the sample size of their data pool and results. I think that university administrators should carefully consider their study, since its implications may be applicable across disciplines. Robb and Kano (2013) obtained significant results, shedding more light on how extensive reading can be effective. While reading their study, sinc...

This study reports on the design and implementation of a reading program — Extensive Reading Online (ERO) — that aims to offer an online reading platform featuring specific needs for EFL learners in Taiwan. The system includes both teacher and student interfaces. Several reading aids are integrated into the system, such as concordancer help, stage-by-stage reading strategy training, and text an...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of extensive reading (ER) and shadowing on performance on reading comprehension tests. This study addressed the following research questions: (a) Can extensive reading improve students’ reading comprehension? and (b) can shadowing enhance the effects of extensive reading? The participants in the study were 89 Japanese university students major...

A few years ago a reading method called “word-focused extensive reading” was proposed for adults learning the fine details of word usage (Cheng 1998a, 1998b, 1998c). In this mode of reading the computer retrieved from a large corpus and displayed the word in question in a sentence. In reading similar sentences the reader would hopefully gain the knowledge of the word usage. That is the idea of ...