“Study Skills”
ENG-123
Lecture 14
“Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading”
By: Tariq Amin
Lecturer, Dept of English,
KUST
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Outline
• Extensive Reading
• Strengths/Advantages of Extensive Reading
• Shortcomings/Disadvantages of Extensive Reading
• Intensive Reading
• Strengths/Advantages of Intensive Reading
• Shortcomings/Disadvantages of Intensive Reading
• Difference between Extensive and Intensive Reading
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Learning Objectives
The students will be able
• To know about Extensive and Intensive Reading
• To understand the difference between Extensive and Intensive Reading
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Extensive reading involves learners reading texts for enjoyment and to develop general reading skills. It
refers the reading for joy.
To read extensively is to simply read as much as possible, without concerning oneself with the meaning
of the unknown word.
Easy Reading Materials
Reading for “enjoyment” and “information”
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Learners choose what they want to read
Learners read as much as possible
Faster reading
requiring a low expenditure of mental effort
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Objectives of Extensive Reading
1. To develop the habit of self-study in the students
2. To enable the students to understand the meaning of the given passage as early as possible
3. To increase the passive vocabulary of the students
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Important Aspects of Extensive Reading
• Texts must be interesting.
• Texts must be level-appropriate
• Texts must be of moderate length
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Advantages
1. helps widen the vocabulary of the students.
2. inculcates the habit of self study in the students.
3. Finish books in reasonable time
4. Provides us pleasure
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Disadvantages
• Language learning autonomy is needed
• No short term outcome
• Selecting materials is difficult
• Vocabulary/ grammar
• Lack of Feeling of Learning English
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading
Intensive reading means that
the readers take a text,
study it line by line, and
refer at very moment to the dictionary about the grammar of the text itself.
To read intensively is to completely deconstruct (analyze) a text, with the goal of absorbing as much
meaning from it as possible.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading
Important Aspects of Intensive Reading
• Texts must be interesting
• Texts must be short
• the most mental energy
• read for brief periods of time specifically to avoid the mental exhaustion.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading
Objectives of Intensive Reading
1. to make a detailed study of words, phrases, word order and expressions
2. to enable the students to comprehend the text, its sense and meaning
3. to enable the students to improve English
4. To encourage the students to gather information from the text.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading
Advantages
1. Enriches vocabulary
2. Improves grammar
3. Improves the power of expression
4. Develop the skill of questioning and answering
5. Helps remember dates, facts etc.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading
Disadvantages
1. Its process is long and boring.
2. It seldom imparts joy and pleasure.
3. The students are interested in this method only from the point of view of examinations.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
Comparison between Intensive and Extensive reading
Intensive Reading Extensive Reading
•It concentrates upon the language aspect. It concentrates upon the subject matter.
The aim is to make a careful and minute The aim is only to grasp the meaning of
study of what is read. what is read.
Words, phrases, and expressions are studied Words, phrases, and expressions are not
in detail. studied in detail.
New words and phrases occurring in the New words and phrases occurring in the
book pass into the pupils active vocabulary. book pass into the pupils passive vocabulary.
Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
Topic: Reading Techniques: Extensive and Intensive Reading
References
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Course: Study Skills ENG-123 - Instructor: Tariq Amin, Lecturer, Dept of English, KUST - Email: tariqamin@[Link]
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