Intensive Reading - Intensive reading materials need to be short, because the goal with this type of reading is to understand all the language and details of what you’re reading. Intensive reading should be more difficult for you, because you want to learn new grammar and vocabulary. You need to concentrate when you’re doing intensive reading. Unlike extensive reading, intensive reading is not relaxing. You probably shouldn’t do intensive reading more than 30 minutes at one time.
Extensive Reading - Reading a long text (e.g. a book) or a lot of text on a variety of topics to obtain an overall understanding of it.
- In everyday life, we tend to do much more extensive reading, i.e. fluent, faster reading, often of longer texts, for pleasure, entertainment and general understanding, but without such careful attention to the details. When we don’t understand words or small sections, we usually keep going, may be only coming back when there has been a major breakdown in our understanding.
- Free voluntary reading refers to using extensive reading in language education. Students are free to choose a book that they like and are allowed to read it at their own pace. The aim of a free voluntary reading program is to help students to enjoy reading, so assessment is usually minimized or eliminated entirely.
- Extensive reading is often overlooked, especially as a classroom activity. Teachers often feel it is not an effective use of class time or are just uncomfortable with the extended silence. Learners can be encouraged to read extensively by setting up a class library, encouraging review writing, and incorporating reading of books into the syllabus, and dedicating some class time to quiet reading.
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