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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DAY AND BAMFORD TEN
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EXTENSIVE READING FROM
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
Aninda Mawar Intanuari
ABSTRACT
Extensive reading is a course when students should read large quantities of materials for general understanding. Based on Day and Bamford (2002) extensive reading has ten basic principles that can foster learner autonomy. This quantitative study reported on questionnaire conducted with 75 students of English Teacher Education Program (ETEP) of Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU). The participants are 2013 students who took Extensive Reading in the odd Semester of 2013/2014. This study attempt to figure out whether the Day and Bamford ten basic principles of Extensive Reading (2002) was implemented by ETEP students of SWCU. The data show that not all the ten basic principles could have been implemented in ETEP of SWCU. The finding indicates that only seven from ten basic principles was implemented in ETEP of SWCU, there are the reading material is easy, a variety of material of a wide range of topic is available, learners choose what they want to read, reading is individual and silent, reading is its own reward, the teacher orients and guides the students and the teacher is a role model of a learner.
