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? 56
b. Research Question 2: Will the participants respond favorably to
to the extensive reading treatment? 57
i. Belief in the benefit of extensive reading 57
ii. Engagement with the extensive reading treatment 57
c. Research Question 3: What test-taking strategies do the participants
use when taking reading comprehension tests like the TOEFL? 61
d. Research Question 4: What are the participants’ opinions of the
reading comprehension section of the TOEFL? 66
i. Three of the participants generally questioned the validity
and reliability of the TOEFL 67
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 71
e. Research Question 5: What are the participants’ opinions of the
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timed reading exercises that take place at the beginning of the ALI’s
reading labs?