Intensive and Extensive Reading
According to Lewis, intensive
reading means that ‘students are expected to understand everything they read
and to be able to answer detailed vocabulary and comprehension questions. Intensive
reading activities in the classroom, on texts which are usually not more that a
page or so in length, are intended to train students in the strategies needed
for successful reading, such as using connectives for predicting content or
guessing the meanings of unfamiliar words using clues in the surrounding text’.
Extensive reading means
students have a general understanding of the text without necessarily
understanding every world. In other words, intensive reading helps to improve
extensive reading but the latter also needs to be practiced in its own right,
principally to give students confidence in dealing with authentic materials.
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