Abstract:
The objective of the study is to investigate the perception and Practice of extensive skills in grade 11 students’ Focusin kaffa zone . To achieve the objective, Bishaw Wolde Yohannes, Ghimbo and Shishinda secondary and preparatory schools were selected as a study area all from Kaffa Zone. For this study, 840 of grade 11 students 252(30% ) (i.e from Bishaw 132, from Gimbo 66 and from Shishinda 54 students) and from BWYS 4, from Gimbo 2, and from Shishinda 1 teachers totally 7 English language teachers’ were taken as sample subjects. To select the subjects from students, simple random sampling by using lottery technique was used. As to the teachers, purposive sampling technique was used to include in the study. To gather valuable information from the subjects, two data gathering instruments (students questionnaire & interview ) were used. And the data was analyzed by using frequency count, percentage and descriptive survey methods. The findings showed that the teachers sometimes advise students extensive reading helps to improve other skills, orient students to the techniques of extensive reading, gave students home reading assignment and tried to integrated extensive reading with other reading skills, the students had free time to read extensive reading materials and could get to read extensive reading materials from the library but they did not try to read it and they did not give attention for extensive reading activities and didn’t show their interest to engage themselves towards the lesson and not tried to practice extensive reading activities.
