Intensive and Extensive Reading Intervention and their Impact on comprention and vocabulary learning of the EFL prep-year students

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of using intensive and extensive reading skills on the reading comprehension and vocabulary learning sub-skills of EFL prep-year students in Taibah University. The study sample consisted of 89 Saudi female prep-year students around 18 and 19 years old, enrolled during the 2012-2013 academic year in Taibah University. They were divided into three groups: intensive group (n=27), extensive group (n=33) and control group (n=