Exploring Interest through Pleasure Reading: The E-Reading Experiences of ESL Learners

The reading interest of students goes with technological advancements. This qualitative study, employed phenomenology, aimed to identify the e-reading experiences of ESL learners as a form of pleasure reading. Key Informant Interview and Focus Group Discussion were carried out. Significant themes were identified through thematic analysis. Results showed that students viewed their e-reading experiences as a form of pleasure reading for relaxing and stress relieving. It is entertaining and entails lessons as well as it capacates them to have an understanding of emotions, improving their reading skills as well as enriching positive thinking. Conversely, comprehending reading texts, improving macro skills and grammatical skills, and learning new words are the improvements gained by the ESL learners. An instructional material was developed to cater the needs of the learners to become motivated to read and being the best version of themselves. E-reading increased the interest of the students to explore the wonders of reading. Indeed, they filled out the gaps in the reading process. Having the necessary skills led them to understand the texts which encouraged them to read more. It is indispensable on the part of the students to engage more into e-reading since they applied the situations in their own lives. They learned lessons as well as the competencies to confront the challenges that they are facing in life. E-reading integrated the skills which would be necessary for students to love reading and improve their communicative competence

Developing an Idea about Semantics and Psycholinguistics

This overall report is revolving around developing an idea about semantics and psycholinguistics. Semantics and psycholinguistics are closely related that explain the way word can be interpreted by different individuals. Secondary data collection method has been chosen as the appropriate data collection method which will be sourced form already published articles and journals. Thematic analysis has been chosen for this study that has helped to duly meet the objectives and reach conclusion about particular topic