Abstract
In Pakistan, English is most importantly taught at all levels of education and several subjects are taught through the medium of English. Students acquire much of knowledge by reading written literature. Therefore, the importance of reading is inevitable at school level where students have to develop and adopt several strategies and new skills. Reading attitude is a complicated notion, and has a crucial role in developing reading skill. Reading attitudes are based on past experiences and practices and make a learner to be positive or negative for attempting the reading activity. Several researches suggest that learners’ choice for reading material and flexibility add a vital role in shaping the reading attitudes of the learners. Therefore, this study had taken the extensive reading for the instruction to gain support for the reading attitudes in second language. This attempt was made to fill the gap by investigating the effectiveness of extensive reading on the L2 reading attitudes. The subjects were 110 secondary level learners from Sindh, Pakistan. A reading attitude likert scale questionnaire was used before and after the 12-week project of extensive reading with 20 items divided into 6 variables: self-perception, intellectual value, practical value, linguistic value, comfort and anxiety. The results were compiled with the help of SPSS analysis, that showed the descriptive analysis of both pre and post project reading attitudes for each variable and significant difference. Suggestions and implications are highlighted for future practices and research. Keywords : Extensive reading, Reading attitude, Second Language, Learners’ Choice DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-2-06 Publication date: January 31 st 2021
Highlights
Reading is an ability, required by all learners
There is a factor which is always encountered by a language teacher among the students at the secondary level, they pay attention towards the activities which focus other language skills and their attitudes show less interest and boredom when it comes to reading activities
It was of interest to study reading attitudes with an effect of a strategy which should be different from the traditional practices for the students of secondary level in Sindh, Pakistan
Summary
Reading is an ability, required by all learners. There should be opportunities to fulfill learners’ need to improve their performances. Chang and Renandya,(2017), investigated one hundred and nineteen L2 teachers in the context of Asia through an online questionnaire about the reason for implementing ER, it’s difficulties and perception of its effectiveness, the results show that teachers had strong positive beliefs in the effectiveness of ER in improving students’ competence of language but there were few students and teachers related difficulties which were reported regarding the program They concluded with the suggestion of the balanced approach for ER implementation which could help in implementing ER program effectively and efficiently. Results of all studies www.iiste.org conclude that students held their views in a positive direction for the practices of extensive reading, but yes, another point can be concluded that learners didn’t seem to assume extensive reading as their first priority for their learning This urges the need for more research in this area. After the completion of the extensive reading project, post the ER project questionnaire was administered to investigate the reading attitudes towards ER and to find out the reading attitudes with an effect of ER practice
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