A Comparative Study of Two Methods on Building Reading Fluency in EFL : Repeated Reading vs Extensive Reading

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Recent reading research has consistently indicated the critical role of reading fluency for successful reading. The findings from eye-movement research and reading performances of monolingual readers of English have shown that good readers engage efficient, fast, and context-free word recognition, while poor readers involve inefficient, context-dependent stow word recognition. Since reading in L2 or FL is a far more laborious and slow process than that in L1, the need to develop a good method to enhance lower identfi cation skills is urgent. The present exploratory study investigates the effect of repeated reading by comparing it with extensive reading, an alternative and popular methodfor developing both lower identfication and higher comprehension skills of L2 or FL readers. Also, some suggestions are made to create a web-based repeated reading program for future extensive research on how repeated reading facilitates the development of reading skills and overall target language ability.
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