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Many researchers have confirmed the profound impact of extensive reading on students' English language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Therefore, extensive reading and translation competence are supposed to be interrelated. Our paper aimed to investigate the influence of extensive reading on English-Vietnamese translation skills among English-majored students at Vinh University. Seventy-four third-year students were divided into two groups: an experimental group involved in extensive reading activities and a control group following a traditional class. A pretest and a post-test assessed each group's translation skills. After a 14-week intervention, the results showed that the experimental group improved their post-test scores considerably in their English-Vietnamese translation compared to the control group. These suggested that extensive reading positively influences translation skills and constitutes a valuable pedagogical tool in the English language learning program to enhance the students' vocabulary acquisition, text understanding, cultural immersion and linguistic transfer. NDB
