compare and contrast intensive and extensive reading
Intensive Reading | Extensive Reading | |
Strengths vs. Weaknesses | Strengths -Develops learners' knowledge of Lg feature. -Improves learners' control of reading strategies. -Accurate comprehension skills Weaknesses -Is likely to ignore meaning-focused input and fluency development. | Strengths -Enjoyment of reading -Develops learners' confidence of reading -Motivates students to learn reading -Gives them purpose of reading -Develop ability to control reading speed according to reading purposes -Whole language skills ↑ -Practical(authentic) in/out class reading. Weaknesses -Language focus can be ignored; ex) poor vocabulary development -Requires 98% of known words in the text(the optimum density) -Readers can be overwhelmed by large quantity of the text. |
Focus and purposes | Focus; mainly language-focused -Genera comprehension -Language feature vocabulary, grammar, information structure, regular and irregular sound-spelling relations. -Genre features -Strategies Purposes -Doing better in future reading | Focus -Meaning focused -Fluency development Purposes -Understanding meaning of the text -Reading a lot -Raising learners' interest in reading |
Practices | ① Comprehension questions; prediction, guess the questions activity. ② Classical Procedures -Standard reading exercise -Reciprocal teaching -CORI(Concept-oriented reading instruction) ③ Vocabulary; high/low frequency words, strategies, guessing from a text ④ Grammar feature; part of speech, what does what?(also for ①), a sentence simplification strategy ⑤ Cohesive devices -Reference words and substitutes -Ellipsis -Comparison -Conjunction relationship -Lexical Cohesion ⑥ Genre reatures; predicting activity | ① Provide interesting reading sources ② Fill out short record form, self critique, oral reports, discussion groups, awards, labelling, display ③ Speed reading training Vocabulary learning; post/pre/while reading, Inductive/deductive guess. ④ Simplified text; low vocabulary load, low frequency words(just once, be forgotten). -glossing, -computer-assisting reading -elaborating |
Examples | Textbooks of middle and high schools Reading Text | Graded Readers Various kinds of authentic reading purposes; enjoyment, information, novel, articles, etc. |
