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Christen Nwoke

Gildo Angélica Dove

Khelven Carlos Meque

Melita Dirce Sitoe

Nelia Nelson Nhoela

Shelcia dos Santos Francisco Penga

Reading Techniques: Intensive and extensive reading

Year 1

Licenciatura em Inglês

Dra. Margaret Mazvimavi

Universidade save

Maxixe

2022
Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Intensive reading 4

Characteristics 4

Materials 4

Skills developed 4

Activities 5

Advantages and disadvantages 5

Advantages 5

Disadvantages5

HOW TO READ INTENSIVELY 5

Taking notes 6

Apply what you have learned6

Extensive Reading (ER) 7

Advantages of extensive reading 7

Conclusion 9

Bibliography references 10
Introduction

Reading is a learning activity dominated by the eyes and brain, where eyes receive the
message, and then the brain processes to obtain the meaning of the message received. In this
job we focused on reading intensive and reading extensive.

Intensive reading is one of the most critical skills you can develop to get a better
understanding of information. When you have to read a report for work, for instance, you
can’t just skim it and call it a day. You have to get a deeper understanding of what’s written,
assess the purpose and evaluate the results to make sense of it. Reading intensively will help
you tackle complex texts and extensive reading is a type of reading where you engage with
different types of reading material. It can be fiction, non-fiction, work-related documents,
newspaper articles.
Intensive reading

Intensive reading is one of the most critical skills you can develop to get a better
understanding of information. When you have to read a report for work, for instance, you
can’t just skim it and call it a day. You have to get a deeper understanding of what’s written,
assess the purpose and evaluate the results to make sense of it. Reading intensively will help
you tackle complex texts.

It’s not about reading book after book or 10 articles a day. Even if you’re reading a single-
line quote, you should try to understand what the words are trying to convey.

Characteristics Intensive reading

 Usually classroom based;

 Reader is intensely involved in looking inside the text;

 Students focus on linguistic or semantic details of a reading;

 Students focus on surface structure details such as grammar and discourse markers;

 Students identify key vocabulary;

 Students may draw pictures to aid them (such as in problem solving);

 Texts are read carefully and thoroughly, again and again;

 Aim is to build more language knowledge rather than simply practice the skill of reading.

Materials

 Usually very short texts - not more than 500 words in length;

 Chosen for level of difficulty and usually, by the teacher;

 Chosen to provide the types of reading and skills that the teacher wants to cover in
course.
Skills developed by Intensive reading

 Rapid reading practice is one of the main development of Intensive reading

Interpreting text by using:

1. Word attack skills

2. Text attack skills

3. Non-text information

Activities that may be included by Intensive reading

Intensive reading exercises may include:

 Looking at main ideas versus details;

 Understanding what is implied versus stated;

 Making inferences;

 Looking at the order of information and how it effects the message;

 Identifying words that connect one idea to another;

 Identifying words that indicate change from one section to another.

Advantages of Intensive reading

 It provides a base to study structure, vocabulary and idioms;

 It provides a base for students to develop a greater control of language;

 It provides for a check on the degree of comprehension for individual students.

 There is little actual practice of reading because of the small amount of text;

 In a class with multi-reading abilities, students may not be able to read at their own;

 level because everyone in the class is reading the same material;

 The text may or may not interest the reader because it was chosen by the teacher;

 There is little chance to learn language patterns due to the small amount of text.

How to use Intensive reading or how to read intensively

In school, it was easier to read in bulk and still understand everything. This is primarily
because we had more time and fewer worries related to our future. Today, we get distracted
for a good hour if someone so much as rings the doorbell.

Here are some main ways to develop the habit of Intensive Reading:

 Taking notes

Taking notes is convenient when you reread the text and can be particularly helpful when
you’re reading a long report. Add sticky notes with questions, ideas and opinions so you can
share them with the author.

 Apply what you have learned

It’s not enough to simply keep the information to yourself and forget about it the next
day. If you can find ways to use that information, you’ll be able to retain it for much
longer.
Extensive Reading

Extensive reading is a type of reading where you engage with different types of reading
material. One of purpose of this kind of reading it is because here read for a enjoyment or we
do this kind of reading just to relax or to get some information.

Advantages of Extensive reading:

 Students become better readers

It is widely accepted that people become good readers through reading, and that learning how
to read should mean a primary focus of attention on the meaning rather than the language of
the text. It is pretty obvious that extensive reading helps students become better readers.
Richard Day amongst many others shows that we learn to read by reading.

 Students learn more vocabulary

Probably the most cited benefit of Extensive Reading is that it can extend and sustain
students’ vocabulary growth. We know that vocabulary is not learned by a single exposure.

 Students improve writing

Students who read extensively also make gains in writing proficiency (Elley and

Mangubhai 1981, and Hafiz and Tudor 1989).

 Students improve overall language competence

In addition to gains in reading and writing proficiency, research demonstrates that students
who read extensively also make gains in overall language competence.

 Students become more motivated to read

It is highly motivating for students to discover that they can read in English and that they
enjoy it. For this reason it is essential that the books are interesting to students and at a level
appropriate to their reading ability.
  Students develop learner autonomy.

Students can read anywhere, at any time, and reading extensively helps them become

more autonomous learners. To promote learner autonomy extensive reading should be a

 Students become more empathic

Neuroscientific and social science studies have shown that people who read literary fiction
extensively are more empathic. People who read novels about other people who are very
different from themselves and their backgrounds are particularly empathic.

Extensive reading is good exercise of the brain, that is stimulate the brain to be strong and
active. There are many reasons why Extensive Reading is good for language development.

Extensive Reading builds vocabulary. When learners read a lot, they meet thousands of
words and lexical (word) patterns that are not taught in textbooks.

Extensive Reading allows the learner to develop an awareness of collocations (common

Extensive Reading helps learners understand grammar. In textbooks learners meet hundreds
of grammar patterns. However, textbooks do not provide enough meetings with grammar for
real acquisition to occur.

Extensive Reading provides opportunities to see grammar in context so learners can deepen
their understanding of how grammar is really used.

Extensive Reading helps learners to build reading speed and reading fluency. In particular,
developing reading speed is important because it helps learners to understand language faster
and better. One objective of Extensive Reading is reading for pleasure. This builds
confidence and motivation which makes the learner a more effective use of language.
Conclusion

In other to conclude our job the reading intensive is one of the most critical skills you can
develop to get a better understanding of information and the extensively reading is a type of
reading where you engage with different types of reading material, we also found that
intensive and extensive reading both has set characteristics, vantages and advantages in
which all of those approaches are important in the process of reading and help the reader
improving its skills in reading techniques.
Bibliographic references

Arikunto, S. (1992). Prosedur Penelitian [Research Procedure]. Jakarta:

PT. Rineka Cipta.

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