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How how should people be reading in order to learn
English? In order to gain fluency? So you feel
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that there's a right way or a wrong way? Or just
different ways? As far as the right way to read,
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um, let's start out with the wrong way. So, I
mentioned my student who had highlighted like
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50 words on one page. Yeah. Um, that's the wrong
way to read, and I have a name for that. I call
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it torture reading. Um, and so it's like you
know, reading...it's basically there's a high
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percentage of noise in the text that doesn't have
any meaning, and that's the wrong way to read. If
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you have a really high motivation, you might
be able to do it, but my experience is that
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if I'm listening or reading something that's
way beyond my level. I actually end up losing
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my motivation, um, so torture reading
is definitely not the way to go.
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