Developing English Supplementary Reading Cards (ESRCs) for Young Learners to Promote Free Voluntary Reading Program

Abstract

In English classes, young learners are mostly put into intensive reading sessions as the main menu where the focus of the session is on young learners’ academic achievement. As a result, it is far from promoting reading English for pleasure. Like other skills in life, young learners learn to read by reading. The more they read, the better their reading competence will be. The better they read, the more enjoyable they find the reading activity. These paradigms function as the basis of pro- viding young learners with various reading materials to read and enough time to spend for reading. This study aimed at developing English supplementary reading material to support young learners to enjoy some reading activities. The Research and Development (R & D) procedure was employed to perform the whole process of the development and validation. With the reading material developed available, young learners are supposed to enjoy reading their own choice at their own pace as they are put into a free voluntary reading program. As a result, young learners have shifted their negative mindset about reading activity