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PRESENTATION IN KSAALT TESOL 2016 DAMMAM

PRESENTATION IN KSAALT 2016 DAMMAM 9th Annual KSAALT TESOL Confrence KSAALT   9 th  Annual Conference Back to the Future:  ELT in the 21st Century  Saturday, May 7, 2016 Presenters: Nasir Khalid Abbasi: Zahid Muzaffar Khan ERP Coordinator, ELCY, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia Topic: Extensive Reading (ER) in an EFL Program: Student Perceptions, Limitation and Future Directions The digital natives of 21 century are struggling predominantly in reading skill and they are facing a lot of challenges. To handle these challenges, the ELCY Management at Yanbu assigns the ERP ( Extensive Reading Project ) Team a daunting task to launch ER project at FYP. On the one hand, the ERP promotes autonomous learning in our students, on the other hand, the students are acquiring a lifelong reading skill that will continuously improve them both academically and intellectually. We believe, instead of responding to only immediate problems they encounter, the ERP can consolida