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Reading is one of the most significant skills, especially for EFL student. These days, many students do not have the reading skills needed to do effective work in their crosses. In this regard, pleasure reading helps students to communicate, listen, and most importantly, to express themselves freely and moreover, it allows them to acquire a specific language skill. This is why reading for pleasure is very important. This paper explores the importance and the impact of reading for pleasure on reading comprehension. This experimental study was conducted in a language institute with 21 English EFL students. The experimental group was given texts for their selection on various topics which they are interested in, while the control group has read texts which were in their book. The duration of the experiment was 15 sessions (5 weeks). Pre-test and post-test were implemented to identify the degree of improvement of the students’ reading comprehension skill. Finally, the experimental group showed better improvement of comprehension skill.  

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