Extensive reading as an out of class learning in efl

Abstract

Extensive reading has sparked a lot of interest in the last decade as a way to improve learners’ foreign language learning. Extensive reading is usually synonymous with reading a large number of materials in order to gain a comprehensive understanding. Readers are more concerned about the text's context as they read extensively. When reading a long passage, readers are more concerned with the overall sense of the text than with the meaning of individual terms and sentences. Extensive reading is considered to be successful program that can help students learn foreign languages. As a result, the aim of this review article is to demonstrate how useful extensive reading is as a language learning strategy. The focus of the paper is on the effectiveness of extensive reading for foreign language learners.