Limitations of Research
This research was conducted over a very short period of only five weeks. Realistically, that is not enough time to expect any kind of pedagogy to significantly affect learning, let alone one where an extensive amount of books are supposed to have been read. By contrast, the studies referenced in Chapter 1 that found positive
correlations between reading habits and superior TOEFL scores considered those reading habits over longer periods of time. As well, the studies that compared pre-treatment and post-treatment measures were conducted over the course of several months or one or more academic semesters. Given the brevity of the present study, it should come as no surprise that the extensive reading treatment generally did not seem to improve the reading comprehension scores of the participants in the treatment group.