Dr. Day intensive to extensive reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Fq5fU5eQ8

From this video, Dr. Day explained that reading has Intensive and Extensive, they are interconnected each other. Reading is interactive process, the reader and the text to create and to construct the meaning. Translation is method to search the meaning, but translation and reading is different.

He also talk about strategy, the strategy is Comprehension and Fluency. Comprehension is intensive reading, and Fluency is extensive reading. The reading strategy can help us read to learn, but first we have to learn to read by reading, that is extensive reading. Most the teaching of reading focuses on comprehension, but fluency in reading is really important. Finding mind idea on pharagraph will be easy if we use the strategy. Fluency strategy help students move away from word by word reading, and the poor reading is reading slowly. The good strategy of fluency with scanning and predicting, scanning is looking particular information and predicting is look at the text, title quickly and predicting the topic.

Recognized signal words is excelent fluency strategy. There are some very important from research :

1.       We have the strategy in context

2.       We have to provide in explanation a reason and rasional for the strategy

It is easy to understand the meaning from each word, but it is very  difficult to create or constuct a meaning of the text. So we wants to do is build up the fluency, and the fluency si the based of comprehension. The one way to bulid up the fluency is extensive reading.

So, extensive reading involves students in reading large quantities of material in the new language. The goal often goes beyong learning to read and may involve students overall language proficiency and their attitudes toward english and motivating for learning. It can be blended into any language course and program, regardless of the focus or methodology.

The some extensive readinng activities is timed repeated reading, the student have to read comportable, dont read fast, dont read slowly. That is the good activities of fluency.