Reading Final Test : Ekstensive Reading

Extensive Reading

There are many definitions of the notion of extensive reading from experts, so I conclude that extensive reading is a reading method there the reader doesn’t have to focus on one word, we can read a lot of general material from various sources.

Extensive reading is flexible, we skim in a short time to get as much information as possible, but we can also decrease the reading speed if there are things we want to know more deeply.

Extensive reading was used for language beginner-level. It will help them become familiar with reading material, understand new words, frame sentences, and develop cognitive abilities to understand text as a complete unit. You will gain a general understanding of the text and improve your language skill.

Benefits of Extensive Reading

1. Build an Interest in Reading

Most of us make reading activities just for fun or hobbies, there are even some people who make reading an activity that makes us sleepy. But in fact, we read every day, like if we do homework from school we have to read a lot of books, office work like reading email or other important papers. The more we read it will increase our interest in reading and can improve our reading skill.

2. Improve reading comprehension skill

Sometimes we are very difficult to get reading comprehension if its too complicated. By continuing to learn to read extensively, sooner or later we can quickly gain reding comprehension from various reading text.

3. Read widely

Start with small and choose short story, short article and online blog perhaps to improve your practice. Please read little by little every day. However, be sure to read all kinds of texts. You can improve your learning speed and save your work time.

4. Improve vocabulary

The more texts we read, we can find new words and we can learn them to improve our vocabulary skill.

Conclusion

Reading extensively, by reading a variety of texts in general we can get many benefits. In addition, extensive reading can also improve our reading interest and our reading ability. You don’t need much, but start little by little every day.