Review On Article: News Report-A Blended Extensive Reading and Intensive Reading Activity

Review on Article: News Report-A Blended Extensive Reading and Intensive
Reading Activity.
Reading shows its important for people around the world since this skill is
involved in almost every aspect of daily lives especially the academic in order to gain
knowledge and to understand the language itself. Two types of reading methods
stated are extensive reading and intensive reading. Extensive reading covers huge
part while intensive reading involves narrower part.
Extensive reading is needed for general understanding where pupils get
involved with long texts reading. Although they are reading in a high quantities, but
the intention is to ensure they enjoy their reading. Pupils free to choose and pick any
reading materials that they like and they think interesting to be discussed or shared
with their friends. In order to provide them with background knowledge, pupils need
to find supported articles that are related with the topic so that they will get better
understanding about the topic that they have picked.
Next, extensive reading leads pupils to more complex activity. One of
the example of extensive reading task is writing summary after reading an article or
passages where grammar and vocabulary are included. They also need to focus on
deriving the main points or the side one based on the article or books that they read.
The other example is present their reading. Pupils will do a short presentation based
on what they have read. By doing this activity, they will prepare themselves with
some information and knowledge, self-motivation, confidence, and help them to be
more independent.
Moreover, extensive reading discourage the overuse of dictionary. Pupils jot
down any words that seem unfamiliar to them and get to know the words by
guessing and adjustifying them in the sentences or they can look for the meaning
right after they have finished their reading. This will reduce the interference and
avoid the pupils from getting bored since they do not need to spend most of their
reading time searching the meaning of the words in the dictionary. If they do so,
inefficient reading will occur as they are not paying much attention on the reading to
get them to the accurate content.
Meanwhile, intensive reading is slightly different from extensive reading. It
does not allow pupils to select the topic that they like and so they need to follow their
teacher. Since the materials are chosen by the teacher, the text may or may not
interest the reader. The articles chosen by the teacher are usually short, comparable
and easy to understand by pupils. Therefore, they are not necessary to look for
supported articles of the topic
Besides, intensive reading methods applied in a class with multireading
abilities, pupils may not be able to read at their own level because everyone in the
class is reading the same material. This will cause to boredom and pupils with low
reading ability will always keep in their mind that English is difficult thing to learn.
In my case, I faced problems when it comes to reading activity because the
students in my class come from different background education and living. I divided
my students into three groups based on their cognitive level. The first group has the
highest cognitive level. On my observation they can read and translate the meaning
of majority of the reading materials very well. They also can point out the main points
of articles or texts that they read by themselves. The second group is the average
one. They can read quite well, but it takes a little bit of time for them to understand
the whole meaning and the content of the texts. The last group is the students that
could not read well and it is difficult for them to digest the information as there are a
quite numbers of words that they do not understand.
Based on my experience, I practised my teaching by using intensive reading
method previously. I let the students with good reading ability to read on their own,
while for the rest of them, I gathered them together so that I can guide them
efficiently. I will always make sure that I choose the simplest yet fun reading
materials for them. By time I picked an average one so that they can get the
experience of learning new challenging level. After that, I asked each one of them to
jot down the words that seem unfamiliar. They need to discuss with their friends or
directly with their teacher.
In conclusion, students have the right to choose and decide what they need
and want to learn. In the upcoming lesson, I plan to apply the extensive reading
method and blend it with intensive reading in order to encourage the students’
learning process for a lifetime learning.

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part while intensive reading involves narrower part.

Extensive reading is needed for general understanding where pupils get

understanding about the topic that they have picked.

Next, extensive reading leads pupils to more complex activity. One of

some information and knowledge, self-motivation, confidence, and help them to be

Moreover, extensive reading discourage the overuse of dictionary. Pupils jot

get them to the accurate content.

Meanwhile, intensive reading is slightly different from extensive reading. It

supported articles of the topic

Besides, intensive reading methods applied in a class with multireading

In my case, I faced problems when it comes to reading activity because the

quite numbers of words that they do not understand.

Based on my experience, I practised my teaching by using intensive reading

directly with their teacher.

learning process for a lifetime learning.

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