TY - JOUR TT - The Effect of Pleasure Reading Experience 30 Years Ago AU - Mason, Beniko PY - 2017 DA - September JF - Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching JO - TOJELT PB - Ahmet Selçuk AKDEMİR WT - DergiPark SN - 2458-9918 SP - 151 EP - 155 VL - 2 IS - 3 KW - English KW - pleasure reading N2 - This paper reports on a pleasure reading experience case. “Miyako” developed an English reading habit as a student in Japan 30 years ago and has continued pleasure reading in English since that time. She reads not to improve her English but because she enjoys it. In 2011, she started working for a company that required the TOEIC examination. Miyako achieved a near-perfect score and was awarded an $800 bonus from her company. At first she did not think she had done anything special to achieve this high level of English, and only later realized that her reading habit was the reason. CR - Krashen, S. D. (1982). Principles and Practice in Second Language AAcquisition. (Retrieved from http://www.sdkrashen.com on 12.10.2016) CR - Krashen, S. D. (1981). Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning. (Retrieved from http://www.sdkrashen.com on 12.10.2016) UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tojelt/article/378755 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/427410 ER -