What Are Effective Ways to Read in English? Learn 3 Ways!
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Um, three other kinds of
reading that I think are good
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are...the first one is called intensive reading,
which is reading for language study -- where you
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focus on, uh, structure in the text, comprehension
questions. So, you're focusing on language and we
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call that intensive reading, and that's important
and and needs to be done. Another kind of reading
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that Paul Nation also recommends is called fluency
reading or speed reading. So, you choose a really
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easy text. You try to read for speed, and you
measure your reading speed, and then you might
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do a few comprehension questions to make sure that
you get it. But your goal on fluency reading is to
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improve your reading speed. And then my favorite
way is big...I call it big, easy reading or big,
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fun reading. And that's extensive reading, where
you read lots and lots of easy texts for pleasure.
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