Teenagers' Reading Interest in an Extensive Reading Program

DOI

10.2991/essaeme-17.2017.448How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Extensive reading, Reading interest, Teenager

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the teenagers' interest in a wide range of reading materials. Extensive reading has been gaining its popularity globally. One major requirement for the success of extensive reading is the availability of a large amount of reading materials. The academic circle makes every effort to present high-quality reading materials to ESL and EFL learner. In an extensive reading program implemented in a Shanghai secondary school, an investigation was made into teenagers' reading interest. Results show a gap between the teenagers' preference and the experts', scholars' and publishers' standards.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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