Power of Reading: Reading as a Strategy for Learning English

Why don’t language acquirers take advantage of the power reading goes heading Krashen’s 1997 article in which he cites studies that establish with evidence through extensive learners can acquire larger vocabularies, do better spelling, writing skills and tests grammar. In other words, claims serves as powerful means developing one’s competence second because it provides required input. Drawing from my own experience exclusively relying on strategy for English learning, I argue, Krashen, or free voluntary is a (Kim & Krashen 1997, 2004). adopt autoethnography method inquiry look back upon recollections how utilized ‘reading’ default working knowledge language. use retrospective composition wrote year 2012, recounts struggle learning school years to days early career teacher English, data text qualitative interpretive analysis.