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 50,000+ words (approximately five intermediate level books)

• minimum four 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 10,000 words• 20,000 words before midterm exam period; total 50,000+ by the

end of the semester

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

RegisterAccess 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) **

Student page

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

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Happy reading!