W's gains after reading Lucky Luke just twice were especially striking. ... Bamford and Day (1998) point to the importance of creating and modeling a culture of reading in the L2 classroom. They mention that students should have easy access to a wide choice of interesting reading materials and they recommend using classroom time to do sustained silent reading. ... Indeed, devoting the ESL reading class hour to doing extensive reading may be a better use of a limited resource than using the time to discuss reading strategies or work on exercises to develop skills many learners already poss...

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