The Effects of Extensive Reading on EFL Learners’ Writing Skills.

Abstract

In this study we investigate the impact of extensive reading in enhancing writing leaner’s abilities. In addition, both reading and writing play an essential role in second foreign language. This study aims at enhancing students writing performance, though the reading skill. And it design to assess the hypothesis in EFL learners read extensively and how the writing competence will be increased. In order to gather data we have used a mixed research method, both quantitative and qualitative methods. We shed the light on two questionnaires; the first one was submitted to 70 EFL LMD students at the division of English at Tiaret University. While, the second questionnaire was administrated to 9 selected EFL teachers. The results showed that there are a lot of issues and obstacles that restrains the development of EFL learners’ language learning in general, and writing ability in specific. At last, it confirmed that if students are exposed to ER materials such as graded readers and authentic materials, then the performance in writing skills will definitely improve.