Nowadays few people want to read except for tests and reading becomes a rare matter. However, it doesn't mean that reading, especially extensive reading is not important. And extensive reading is very significant for English learners.
First and foremost, extensive reading could help students expand their scope of knowledge both in academic level and life philosophy. It could add their English vocabulary as well as widen their horizon. Next, English learners should form a reading habit and extensive reading bring the chance for them. Last but not least, extensive reading could cultivate people's mind, and arouse people's interest of learning English, which is paramount for students' English learning.
As Francis Bacon once wrote in his prose, Of Studies, that,"Reading makes a full man, conf