Chapter II theoretical foundation

Intensive Reading

Intensive reading is related to further progress in language laerning under the teachers‟ guidance. Intensive reading will provide a basis for explaining difficulties of structure and for extending knowledge of vocabulary and idioms. It will also provide material for developing greater control of the language in speech and writing. The material selected shoul parallel the type of material the advaced student would enjoy in the native language: short stories, novels, plays, and poems, articles on scientific discoveries, artistic achievements, political development, and aspects of contemporary community life in a country where the language is spoken. Since this reading master will be studied in detail, it will not serve as the ideal vehicle for further practice in direct teaching.
Intensive reading can be called text reading or passage reading. In this type of reading the learner reaads the text to get knowledge. This reading is done to carry out to get specific information. Intensive reading material will be the basis for classroom activity. It will not only be read but will be discuused in detail in the target language, sometimes analyzed and used as a basis for writing excesises.

3. Silent Reading

Broughton et al (2003:92) state that Reading may also mean
„silent reading‟ and this is the interpretation which is most likely for the term. This is perhaps the nearest approach to the essence of reading. It is obvious that by far the greatest amount of reading that is done in the wordl is silent. A reading room is silent room. But the nature of silent reading skill is far from uniform. It varies according to the use to which is being put. Some of the uses are to survey material which is to be studied , to look through indexes, chapter headings and outlines to skim particularly when one item of information is being sought in a mass of other printed information to gain superficial comprehension, as when reading for pleasure or preparing to read aloud to study the content of what is read in some detail, to study the language in which the material is written. This may involve textual study in the literary sense or may involve the kind of language study that foreigner may need to do.
Silent reading is the most important type of reading. Silent eading should be intoduced when the students has mastrered the basic structured, comprehends the meaning of words and recognize and pronounce words accurately. Silent reading enables the students to read without making sounds and moving his lips. It helps him read with speed, easy and fluency. It aids comprehension and expands the students‟ vocabulary (Patel & Jain, 2008:116).

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