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Reading is one of the most significant skills, particularly for EFL students. Many students today do not have the reading skills needed to do effective work in their courses. This paper explores reading for pleasure, its importance and impact on reading comprehension. Pleasure reading helps students to communicate, listen and, most importantly, to express themselves freely and it also allows them to acquire specific language skills. That is why reading for pleasure is definitely important. An experimental study using reading for pleasure was carried out at international Black Sea University for eight weeks with 42 English Philology freshman students. The experimental group was given texts for their selection: newspaper articles and graded readers on various topics which students were interested in, while the control group has just read the reading excerpts and texts which are given in their course book. The duration of the experiment was 8 weeks.

Pre- and post-tests were implemented to determine the degree of improvement of students’ reading comprehension skills. The experimental group showed better improvement of comprehension skills. The study demonstrated a measurable positive effect of reading for pleasure on students’ language acquisition

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2016
• Year: 2016
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Reading Comprehension, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Reading Improvement, Language Acquisition, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Reading Habits, Foreign Countries, Goctu, Ramazan

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