a. Research Question 1: Will pretest and posttest measures of the English L2 reading comprehension of the participants of this study indicated a differential gain for the participants in the treatment group who read more than the comparison group, whom read less?
b. Research Question 2: Will the participants respond favorably to to the extensive reading treatment?
i. Belief in the benefit of extensive reading
ii. Engagement with the extensive reading treatment
c. Research Question 3: What test-taking strategies do the participants use when taking reading comprehension tests like the TOEFL?
d. Research Question 4: What are the participants’ opinions of the reading comprehension section of the TOEFL?
i. Three of the participants generally questioned the validity and reliability of the TOEFL
ii. Some of the participants would have preferred writing a response paper as a possible alternative to section 3 of the TOEFL, for testing English L2 reading comprehension
e. Research Question 5: What are the participants’ opinions of the timed reading exercises that take place at the beginning of the ALI’s reading labs?