An extensive reading programme is a supplementary class library scheme, attached to an English course, in which pupils are given the time, encouragement, and materials to read pleasurably, at their own level, as many books as they can, without the pressures of testing or marks. Thus, pupils are competing only against themselves, and it is up to the teacher to provide the motivation and monitoring to ensure that the maximum number of books is being read in the time available. The watchwords are quantity and variety, rather than quality, so that books are selected for their attractiveness and relevance to the pupils’ lives, rather than for literary merit.
(Davis, 1995, p. 329 apud Willy A. Renandya and George M. Jacobs, Extensive Reading: Why Aren’t We All Doing It? Cambridge University Press: 2002.)
De acordo com o trecho acima, sobre a leitura extensiva numa turma de Inglês como Língua Estrangeira, pode-se afirmar:
