My paper aims to show the importance of extensive reading in developing the students’

reading comprehension skill and to help students achieve good understanding of a

written material.

Teacher and Students of the English Department

This research is conducted through the descriptive method, by using questionnaires for
both teachers and students in order to know both opinions concerning the importance of
extensive reading in enriching the EFL students with much vocabulary ;therefore
facilitating the reading comprehension process. The first section is concerned with
general knowledge about participants. The second section deals with reading
comprehension, students in this section provide their opinions about reading
comprehension. The last section is about extensive reading and students’ preferences
in reading.

1. Reading
2. Extensive
3. Reading comprehension
4. Vocabulary
5. Reading habit
6. Reading skills
7. Extensive reading
8. Proficiency
9. English as a Foreign Language
10. Fluency

This paper seeks to investigate the role of extensive reading in enhancing the students’
reading comprehension to transform students to read extensively and at the same time
to improve their reading comprehension ability and vocabulary. Extensive reading is
very important, it makes students acquire new vocabulary which facilitate the reading
comprehension, besides that extensive reading promotes a reading habit and offer
better reading skills. With these, students will master the reading skills, proficiency in
English as a Foreign Language, and fluency if they read extensively.

The role of extensive reading in enhancing the students’ reading comprehension to

transform students to read extensively and to improve their reading comprehension
ability, using extensive reading students acquire new vocabulary which facilitate the
reading comprehension and promotes a reading habit and offer better reading skills.

The role of extensive reading in enhancing the students’ reading comprehension and
promotes a reading habit and offer better reading skills.

Enhancing Students’ Reading Comprehension through Extensive Reading