The Effect of English Extensive Reading Activities on Students’ Reading Proficiency and Reading Motivation

Abstract

This paper explores whether the Extensive Reading has a positive effect on students' reading motivation and proficiency. For this study 36 high school students in two separate classrooms from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea were surveyed. To control for extraneous variables in the samples, ANCOVA analysis was utilized. The result indicates that Extensive Reading activities led subjects to have higher intrinsic levels of reading motivation, and, at the same time, to have higher levels of reading proficiency.