An Implementation of Online Extensive Reading to Improve Reading Comprehension of Social Work Students

This research aimed at studying the reading skills of finding main idea an article, learning new vocabulary, and students’ opinions towards extensive through online weekly journals. The sample consisted 27 third-year students from Faculty Social Administration enrolled in English for Workers 1 first semester 2021 academic year. instruments articles published reliable sources, such as BBC, CNN, National Geographic, were relevant to their field study. findings showed that (1) able identify written text sources based on a topic interest or Students could write summary determine idea. As about after eight weeks activities, (2) read faster familiar with strategies during activities. They capable long vocabulary did not have rely translation tools.