Exploring Factors Affecting Indonesian EFL Students’ Reading Skill through Extensive Reading Activities

Abstract

Extensive reading in EFL context has the impact with English language skills, and language sub-skills; vocabulary mastery, reading speed rate. This research is conducted by applying This research is applied quantitative research method with ADDIE model in order to achieve the goal of increasing interest and understanding in reading English texts. The research location is in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Muslim Nusantara (UMN) Al Washliyah, Medan, North Sumatera. In this research, questionnaire with Likert scale is used to help assess students' reading habits and critical thinking skills. According to the research result, Indonesian EFL students find the difficulties to improve reading skill, and the students also believe that ER activities will be the solution in to achieve English skill level. ER activities absolutely concern with the reading frequency, vocabulary mastery, prior knowledge, and higher order thinking. HOTs in ER activities will be more achievable because they way students understand English texts through enjoyable reading materials can be interpreted and evaluated. Keywords: EFL students, extensive reading, reading enjoyment.