The participants were 59 Japanese university students who enrolled in the author's two EFL
extensive reading classes (male: 44, female: 15, ages: 19 to 23 with the mode 19).1 The students'
academic backgrounds were engineering (n=34), agriculture (n=21), education (n=3), and
literature (n=1). The majority of them were in their second year (n=56), with three students being
either in the third or fourth year. They were all native speakers of Japanese and had studied EFL
through formal instruction at school for at least seven years. Three students had had the
experience of living abroad for about a year. Such an experience may have influenced their
attitude to English in comparison with students who had never been abroad. However, the
overseas experiences of these students occurred either at preschool or elementary school age.
Their responses to a reading attitude questionnaire and results on an L2 proficiency test did not seem to have been affected by their experience abroad at such early ages.2 Therefore, data from
these three students were included in the analysis
The participants were 59 Japanese university students who enrolled in the author's two EFL
extensive reading classes (male: 44, female: 15, ages: 19 to 23 with the mode 19).1 The students'
academic backgrounds were engineering (n=34), agriculture (n=21), education (n=3), and
literature (n=1). The majority of them were in their second year (n=56), with three students being
either in the third or fourth year. They were all native speakers of Japanese and had studied EFL
through formal instruction at school for at least seven years. Three students had had the
experience of living abroad for about a year. Such an experience may have influenced their
attitude to English in comparison with students who had never been abroad. However, the
overseas experiences of these students occurred either at preschool or elementary school age.
Their responses to a reading attitude questionnaire and results on an L2 proficiency test did not seem to have been affected by their experience abroad at such early ages.2 Therefore, data from
these three students were included in the analysis
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