Professional skills of the English teacher, technology and innovations Theme: Teaching Reading in efl classes

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• Difference between Intensive and Extensive Reading

#	Extensive Reading	Intensive Reading
1	“Extensive reading” is considered as being reading rapidly. The readers read books after books. Its attention is paid to the meaning of the text itself not the language.	“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.
2	The purpose of extensive reading is for pleasure and information.	The purpose of intensive reading is getting literal meaning of the text.

• Difference between Intensive and Extensive Reading

#	Extensive Reading	Intensive Reading
3	Readers are more concerned with the meaning of the text than the meaning of individual words or sentences.	Readers are also concerned with the meaning of individual words or sentences.
4	Reading of novels, magazines, newspapers etc. are the examples of extensive reading	Reading of textbooks is the example of intensive reading.

• Difference between Intensive and Extensive Reading

#	Extensive Reading	Intensive Reading
5	Generally silent reading becomes the example of extensive reading.	Generally oral reading becomes the example of intensive reading.
6	Extensive reading means to read a lot of matter.	Intensive reading means that to read some matter very thoroughly and deeply.

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