Extensive reading covers broader topics where students read for enjoyment and general understanding, while intensive reading focuses on shorter texts assigned by the teacher. In extensive reading, students write summaries and presentations after researching background information, whereas intensive reading involves answering text-based questions. Extensive reading discourages overuse of dictionaries since it aims for comprehension, but intensive reading requires understanding every word using dictionaries due to question-answering.
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Differences between Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive reading covers broader topics where students read for enjoyment and general understanding, while intensive reading focuses on shorter texts assigned by the teacher. In extensive reading, students write summaries and presentations after researching background information, whereas intensive reading involves answering text-based questions. Extensive reading discourages overuse of dictionaries since it aims for comprehension, but intensive reading requires understanding every word using dictionaries due to question-answering.
Extensive reading covers broader topics where students read for enjoyment and general understanding, while intensive reading focuses on shorter texts assigned by the teacher. In extensive reading, students write summaries and presentations after researching background information, whereas intensive reading involves answering text-based questions. Extensive reading discourages overuse of dictionaries since it aims for comprehension, but intensive reading requires understanding every word using dictionaries due to question-answering.
A) Extensive Reading covers large area, while Intensive Reading covers narrower area.
1. According to Graham Stanley, Extensive
Reading involves students reading long texts or large quantities for general understanding, with the intention of enjoying the texts. 2. In this case, the students also have to find supported articles related to the topic in order to give them background knowledge, so that they know more about the topic they have chosen. 3. Intensive Reading that does not allow the students to find a topic they like. The topic is given by the teacher.
4. The students also do not necessary to
look for supported articles because the topic which is chosen by the teacher is usually short and easy to understand. Students reading with teacher. B) In Extensive Reading the students activity in classroom is more complex than in Intensive Reading.
1. The students, in Extensive Reading
class, usually are asked to write a summary after reading an article/ passage. 2. It allows learners to assert full control, both of the main factual or fictional content of an article/ book, and of the grammar and vocabulary used to express it (Bell, 1998). 3. Student will also do short presentation which will ensure the students have knowledge of the right preparation, self- independence and autonomy (Bell, 1998). 4. While in Intensive Reading, instead of writing summary and having presentation, the students are asked to answer some questions related to the topic which is given by the teacher. 5. Usually, all of the answers are available on the text, so that the students only rewrite it. C) Extensive Reading will discourage the over- use of dictionary (Bell, 1998); on the contrary dictionary is a must in Intensive Reading.
1. Students will focus only on the
language if they always consult the dictionary every time they find an unfamiliar word. They will not pay attention to the message conveyed. 3.Meanwhile in Intensive Reading, students have to find difficult words while they are reading. 4. The frequency of using dictionary is often because in Intensive Reading, a text will be used to answer some questions, so the students have to know the meaning of all words in the text in order to make them easy to answer the questions. REFERENCES: Bell,Timothy. 1998. Extensive Reading: Why? And How?. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. IV, No. 12, December 1998. http://iteslj.org/Articles/Bell-Reading.html (Accessed on October 13, 2005)
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