... with an idea that IELTS reading tasks as an extensive reading activities in class should be introduced to students with the aim to arousing their active attitudes towards reading as reading as ... understanding of the material. According to Richards and Schmidt (2002: 193), " ;extensive reading means reading in quantity and in order to gain a general understanding of what is read." ... information, scanning to locate specifically required information and transferring information to diagrammatical display. However, according to Wallace (1993), reading skills are ways of reading which...