Extensive reading involves reading large amounts of material for general understanding rather than close analysis. It aims to promote reading as a habit and create positive attitudes toward reading. Extensive reading exposes students to different types of materials and genres to prepare them for more intensive reading. However, it faces challenges like limited book availability, lack of awareness of its importance, and engaging classroom activities. While often done outside of class, extensive reading has a big impact in developing student literacy and is the beginning of their learning journey. Without extensive reading, students will lack motivation to read which can undermine foreign language learning.

1. EXTENSIVE
READING
Presented by:
Kinkin Susansi

2. Definition
• Reading rapidly for general understanding or to
know the broad outline of large amount
materials or longer texts.
• Involve reading for pleasure or joyful reading

3. Aims
• To promote reading
• To build a reading culture or habit
• To create positive attitude toward reading
• For word recognition
• To make familiar with different types of material
and genre
• To prepare students for intensive
reading

4. Problems
• The availability of books
• Unaware the importance of extensive reading
• Teacher’s roles
• Tasks and activities that engage students with
reading materials

5. Extensive Reading Cont.
• Extensive reading may be just a supplementary
activities done mostly outside class, but has big
impact in transmit literacy. Extensive reading is
the beginning of students literacy.
• Without introducing students to extensive
reading, students will have no motivation to read
that will make their acquisition of L2 and
foreign language unsuccessful.

6. Conclusions
• Extensive reading is one way to make students
be friend with books, smooth their way to learn
more difficult texts, and give more knowledge in
a fun way.
• Through extensive reading, students will engage
with their readings without have to asked. They
who like to read can help to spread a reading
culture to people around them, especially
their peers.

7. References
• Richard, J. C., & Renandya, W. A. (Eds). (2002).
Methodology in language teaching: An anthology of
current practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
• Harmer, J. (2007). The practice of English language
teaching. 4th ed. Harlow: Pearson Longman.