College and University Writing Skills and Vocabulary Gains through ER in a Teacher Training Course more

Students enrolled in the second year of an elementary school teacher training course read extensively over a three-month period (once a week for 45 minutes x 9). The results of an English writing test (fluency, syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, lexical complexity) and a vocabulary survey (150 questions in total, 30 each at the 1000-, 2000-, 3000-, 4000-, and 5000-word levels) conducted before and after the extensive reading program showed no significant growth in writing skills, but significant growth in vocabulary was observed at the 1000-word level, the 4000-word level, and in total. The reflections written by the participants after the 3rd, 6th, and 9th lessons were analyzed qualitatively, and the factors behind the quantitative results were analyzed and implications will be discussed based on these results.