From Intensive to Extensive Reading

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From Intensive to Extensive Reading

by

Dr. Richard R. Day

            Reading is a number of interactive processes. It means not one ways but two ways between the readers and the story and reading and the text. When reading, the readers use their knowledge (knowledge of the world, knowledge of the language, knowledge of the topic, knowledge of the author) to create, to construct,to build meaning so it means that to readers who have different knowledge background different languages.

Reading is also magic and fun, because reading can take us to wonderful places, it can take us to different times, different cultures, different universes that we never lived or shared. Psychologists who study brain have discovered that when people are reading, enjoying and involving the reading, they lose their track, they forget where they are and what time it is. It's called flow experience.

How do we learn to read?

We learn to read by reading. The more reading we do, the better readers are students beecome, the more opportunities we give are students to engage in reading the better readers they become.

Differences between strategy and skill. 

Strategy is things that we do conciously to help do something, it's kind of concious behaviour. 

Skill is things that we do automatically or unconciously.

A good reader and reader to learn will have good comprehension and fluency.

Comprehesion gets meaning from the text. The basic comprehension in reading are:

·         Finding main ideas

·         Recognizing point of view

·         Recognizing reference words

·         Define meaning from the context

Fluency is really important and it's different with comprehension. It helps the students move away from word by word reading.

·         There are strategies to help the readers' fluency:

·         Scanning

·         Projecting to the topic:  looking at to the text, title or picture quickly.

·         Skimming

How to teach reading strategy ?

1.              We have to teach strategy in context.

2.              We have to provide a reason for the strategy.

3.              Recycle, repeatation. Give a strategy to the students in context and explain, practice is important.

The importance of Fluency

Reading is not read word by word, it's inappropriate. We have to build up fluency, it makes the readers move to the word. If the readers are not read fluently, they will not comprehend the text well. So, fluency is the best comprehension in reading.

One way to build up the fluency is extensive reading.

Extensive reading involves the students in reading large quantities of material in the new language. The goal often goes beyond learning to read and improve students' overall language proviciecy and their attitudes toward English and motivation for learning. It can be blended into any language course and program, regardless of the focus at methodology.

The benefits of Extensive Reading

1.      Better reader

2.      Increased vocabulary

3.      Incidential

4.      Improved reading skill

Extensive Reading Activities

1.      Timed repeated reading

2.      Rereading, helps to build fluency

3.      Predicting, what is the story about

4.      Thinking about the story

5.      Listen to the recording, making the connection between sound and symbol

6.      Easy, the book is easy. if the book is hard, students will difficult understanding the text.

7.      Speed, it can build understanding.

Reading a book is not hard, it is easy. If the book is hard,  student will difficult to understand the text.

Reading teacher should give an appropriate material, suitable with the level of the student. Don't give the students material for L1 reader, don't use an authentic material because it is too hard.

Intensive Reading helps the students read to learn.

Extensive Reading helps the students learn to read.