The Effects of Extensive Reading Through E-Books on University Vietnamese Student’s Reading Attitude, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary

Extensive Reading through e-books is relaxing and informal and allows students to choose materials based on their English proficiency and interests. It involves the reader reading large quantities of text to understand the content in general and includes individualized and independent Reading, which gives students the chance to select the materials based on their interests without discussing texts in class. This topic research aims to measure the impact of extensive Reading through e-books on Vietnamese students' reading attitudes, Vocabulary, and reading comprehension skills. Researchers conducted a controlled intervention study with 208 students who majored in the students of English Linguistics at the LONG AN University of Economics and Industry, 104 students in the intervention group and 104 other students in the control group. The students in the selected intervention group had a high degree of similarity in demographic characteristics, attitudes, Vocabulary, and reading comprehension skills compared with the control group. Research tools include vocabulary and reading comprehension skills tests and Schutte and Malouff's Adult Motivation for Reading Scale test, 2007. Both groups took the test before and after conducting the study. In addition to a traditional curriculum for both groups, twelve weeks e-book extensive reading program was conducted for the experimental group by students encouraged to read the materials freely from three e-book library collections categorized based on level of difficulty. However, the control group did not engage in any extensive reading program. The results show that extensive reading activities by e-books can significantly improve Vietnamese students' vocabulary size, reading comprehension ability, and reading attitude. Extensive Reading through e-books effectively enhances students' reading comprehension and attitudes by expanding their Vocabulary. This result has several implications for language educators and materials developers.