English Assignment

Intensive VS. Extensive reading

BY: Muhammad hamza

Roll number (057)
BS. Psychology
• What is intensive reading:-
• Intensive reading involves learners reading in detail with specific learning
aims and tasks. It refers reading carefully for an exact understanding of
text. This approach helps language learners really understand the
language’s and grammar.

• Intesive reading is used for:

1. Contracts,
2. Legal documentation,
3. Aplication froms,
4. Etc.
• What is extensive reading:-
• Extensive reading is meant to be a fun and pleasurable experience,
requiring a low expenditure of mental effort. The more extensive reading
you do, the more language you’re exposed to, allowing you to increase
your passive knowledge of vocabulary quite quickly.

• Entensive reading is used for:

1. Improving language proficiency,
2. Comprehension,
3. General knowledge,
4. ETC.
 Comparison between
intensive and extensive reading
Intensive reading
• Intensive reading means that the readers take a
text, study it line by line, and refer at very
moment to the dictionary about the grammar of
the text itself.
• The purpose of intensive reading is getting literal
meaning of the text.
• Intensive reading means that to read some
matter very thoroughly and deeply. Intensive
reading means reading single book over and over
to get its literal meaning.
• Reading of textbooks is the example of intensive
reading.
Extensive reading
• Extensive reading is considered as being reading
rapidly. The readers read books after books. It’s
attention is paid to the meaning of the text itself
not the language.
• The purpose for extensive reading Is for pleasure
and information.
• Extensive reading means to read a lot of matter.
Extensive reading means reading different books of
similar ideas.
• Reading of novels, magazines, newspapers etc are
the examples of extensive reading.
 Conclusion
• Extensive reading is mainly used when an overall or superficial
knowledge is required on a subject, as no focus is made on the
detailed study. On the other hand, intensive reading is used where
due attention is required, to learn specific details about the topic or
subject under study.