A 15-week extensive reading course increased Japanese EFL learners' feelings of comfort with foreign-language reading (r = .54)¶
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Currency · newest study 2013 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i3 Extensive reading significantly increased the Comfort component of L2 reading attitude, with a large effect size (r = .54). → Junko Yamashita 2013
Evidence¶
Junko Yamashita 2013¶
Junko Yamashita. (2013). Effects of extensive reading on reading attitudes in a foreign language. Reading in a Foreign Language, 25(2). http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl doi:10.64152/10125/66872
q2 · i3 · causal · r1
Repeated-measures ANOVA on pretest–posttest questionnaire scores of 61 undergraduates in a 15-week ER course found a significant pretest–posttest difference for Comfort with a large effect (r = .54).
"Multiple comparisons identified significant differences between the pretest and the posttest for Comfort, Anxiety, and Intellectual Value (p < .05, Bonferroni-adjustments), but no difference for Practical Value. Effect size was large for Comfort (r = .54)"
Junko Yamashita 2013 (2)¶
Junko Yamashita. (2013). Effects of extensive reading on reading attitudes in a foreign language. Reading in a Foreign Language, 25(2). http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
q2 · i? · causal · r1
Table 1 reports Comfort mean scores rising from 2.25 (SD 0.63) at pretest to 2.60 (SD 0.68) at posttest on a five-point scale, consistent with the increase in comfort; no effect size is printed in the table.
"Table 1. Descriptive statistics of four attitude variables"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Extensive reading reduced Japanese EFL learners' anxiety about foreign-language reading (r = .34) — related
- Extensive reading increased the Intellectual Value Japanese EFL learners attached to foreign-language reading (r = .26) — related
- Extensive reading produced no measurable change in the perceived Practical Value of foreign-language reading (r = .09) — related
- AI reduces foreign language anxiety and strengthens self-efficacy and self-confidence, supporting the Affective Foundation Pathway — related
- Anxiety in foreign language classroom learning experiences is linked with oral performance among Japanese EFL learners — related
- Motivational SRL factors correlate with but do not directly predict Japanese EFL learners' proficiency — related
- The effect of extensive reading on reading attitude varied by attitude component, shown by a significant time × attitude interaction (ηp² = .168) — a broader claim this one bears on
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A 15-week extensive reading course increased Japanese EFL learners' feelings of comfort with foreign-language reading (r = .54) |
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A 15-week extensive reading course increased Japanese EFL learners' feelings of comfort with foreign-language reading (r = .54) |
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2013 |
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