Extensive Reading Assignment

Intensive vs. Extensive Reading

Intensive reading – reading in detail with specific

learning aims and tasks.

• This is what we will do in class.

Extensive reading - reading longer texts (e.g. books) for

pleasure and to develop general reading skills.

• You will do this by yourself outside of class.

Benefits of Extensive Reading

• increase reading speed

• improve reading comprehension (understanding)

• development of grammatical and vocabulary knowledge

• improvement of writing skills

• improvement of listening & speaking skills

Benefits of Extensive Reading

Assignment

During the semester:• read 60,000+ words (approximately six books)

• minimum five books (but you can read more!)

• ‘graded readers’ – short books (fiction & non-fiction) with different levels of difficulty

Which level?

To improve your reading speed and enjoyment:

• choose books where you know about 95% of the words

• about 1 in 20 words should be unfamiliar (1 word every 2 or 3 lines)

• too easy boring!

• too difficult not enjoyable to read, and too much time stopping to look up words in the dictionary

Where?

Borrow them from:

Yonsei Central Library

Humanities Books section – 2nd floor

OR

Buy them from:

Yonsei bookstore, Kyobo, Bandi & Luni’s etc…

Grades

Worth 10% of your final grade• 2 points per 12,000 words

• 30,000 words before midterm exam period; total 60,000+ by the end of the semester (minimum five books)

How to get points:• pass the book quiz on Mreader.org (DO THIS BY YOURSELF!)

• only one chance to do the quiz

• 15 minutes per quiz (you can look at the book while doing the quiz)

• DON’T open the quiz until you are ready to do it!!

• maximum one quiz every 24 hours

Don’t Cheat!

• The goal of the Mreader quiz is to check your reading comprehension – therefore you must do the reading quiz by yourself!!

• Don’t get help from a friend or help a friend to do the quiz – this is cheating.

• I can track cheating, and if you cheat, you will not get points for reading the book – this means you could lose up to 10% from your final grade!!

• Important: I won’t tell you during the semester if I catch cheating – you will only find out at the end. You won’t get a chance to make up the missed points.

Mreader.org

Register

Access code: find it on nicolateacher.com/moodle

Your ID number: Yonsei ID # (e.g. 2103123456)

** Your login will be: YON-[ID #] (e.g. YON-2013123456) **

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You can search books by:genre, publisher, fiction/non-fiction, images/words and level

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Happy reading!