KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Thuy Nguyen, Hoa Sen university
Extensive Reading: Follow-up Activities
Abstract
This paper aims at exploring students' perceptions of benefits of extensive reading (ER) and their expectations of the program. The population for this study was 88 sophomore students majoring in English. They were asked to complete surveys regarding their perceptions on their reading habits and follow-up activities such as book report, quizzes on M-reader and trailers of extensive reading and about how much extensive reading they had. The results show that the students considered the extensive reading important and beneficial in not only improving their English competence and critical thinking skills but also in enhancing their cross-cultural understanding and global issues. The results also suggest that they had difficulties in doing the quizzes and expected to have more graded readers and supports from the stakeholders.
Biographicals
Thuy Nguyen graduated from HUFLIT in 1999 and received her MA in TESOL from Canberra University, Australia in 2002. She has over 12 years' experience of teaching English. She gave conference presentations in Thailand (Thailand TESOL) in January 2014 , in Cambodia in February 2014, and in Malaysia in 2015 ( Asia TEFL).
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