A CASE STUDY: READING A STORY BOOK WITH YOUNG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT THE SILENT PERIOD

Authors

  • Youn Ah Jung Curriculum & Instruction Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Minkyung Yu Curriculum & Instruction Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Traci Kervin Curriculum & Instruction Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v0i0.549

Keywords:

reading, reading motivation, the silent period, young English language learners

Abstract

Reading a story book is considered as an effective way to promote language skills because it has been shown to foster enjoyment and pleasure in reading among language learners, however, there is still insufficient evidence about the effect of the reading on students’ motivation during the silent period to learn a foreign second language. The purpose of this study is to investigate second language learners’ reading motivation, and their language growth among interactions as reading a book during the silent period. Furthermore, this study has an implication to understand how reading a book affects young students when learning a foreign second language as English. 

 

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2017-02-27

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Vol 2, No 1 (2017)

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