This article overviews current research on second language vocabulary learning. It
concludes that a large vocabulary is necessary to function in English: 8000—9000 word …

This comprehensive book by renowned scholars Paul Nation and Rob Waring accessibly
covers all aspects of extensive reading in second and foreign language contexts. The book …

What is extensive reading (ER)? What is an extensive reading approach to second
language reading instruction9 Are the learnmg benefits large enough to justify the inclusion …

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research
on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

This chapter first looks at extensive reading (ER) and extensive listening (EL) separately,
defining the terms and discussing the language learning benefits of the two approaches to …

My goal in this article is to discuss the empirical support for extensive reading and explore its
pedagogical applications in L2/FL learning. I argue that the benefits derived from diverse …

This study investigated the effects of (a) the amount of pleasure reading completed,(b) the
type of texts read (ie, simplified or unsimplified books), and (c) the level of simplified texts …

We report on a large-scale implementation of extensive reading (ER) in a university setting
in Japan where all students were required to read outside class time as part of their course …