Some scholars have hypothesized that writing style, the special language of writing, is acquired, or subconsciously absorbed, through reading (Krashen, 1984, 2004; Smith, 1988, 2004). The language of writing, it is argued, is too complex to be consciously learned, and there are compelling case histories of those who developed high levels of competence in the written language through reading alo...

Mobile-assisted language learning and its impact on students’ outcomes have been examined as one of the attractive methods in English extensive reading (ER). Yet, studies investigating mobile-assisted empowerment are scarcely reported. Grounded a scale, this research aimed to assess toward enactment private university Indonesia. This case study involved students (n=27) from Department Education...

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) was used to investigate how the human brain processes phonology and transforms a word's visual form (orthography) into phonological form during reading in logographic Chinese, a writing system that differs markedly from alphabetic languages. We found that reading aloud of irregular words produced larger MR signal intensity changes ov...

The importance of fostering reading motivation among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners cannot be overstated, it plays pivotal role in language acquisition, vocabulary development, and overall proficiency. This literature review aims to explore the effectiveness extensive (ER) powerful tool promote ESL learners. research delves into various aspects related topic, such significance an i...