2. Intensive vs. Extensive Reading
Intensive reading â 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.
3. 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
5. Assignment
During the semester:
⢠read 50,000+ words (approximately five intermediate level books)
⢠minimum four books (but you can read more!)
⢠âgraded readersâ â short books (fiction & non-fiction) with
different levels of difficulty
6. 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 ď boring!
⢠too difficult ď not enjoyable to read, and too much
time stopping to look up words in the dictionary
7. Where?
Borrow them from:
Underwood Memorial Library, Songdo Campus
4th floor â go to the right side after you get out of
the elevator
OR
Buy them from:
Yonsei bookstore, Kyobo, Bandi & Luniâs etcâŚ
9. Which books?
⢠Shorter graded readers (not the original books)
⢠Look for books with âUML 428â on them
10. 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 (minimum four 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)
⢠DONâT open the quiz until you are ready to do it!!
⢠maximum one quiz every 24 hours
11. Donât Cheat!
⢠The goal of the Mreader quiz is to check your reading
comprehension â therefore you must do the reading
quiz by yourself!!
⢠Donât get help from a friend or help a friend to do the quiz â this
is cheating.
⢠I can track cheating, and if you cheat, you will not get points for
reading the book â this means you could lose up to 10% from
your final grade!!
⢠Important: I wonât tell you during the semester if I catch cheating
â you will only find out at the end. You wonât get a chance to
make up the missed points.
13. Register
Access code: find it on at the top of your
course page on my website â under the Link to Mreader
Your ID number = Yonsei ID # (e.g. 2017123456)
DO NOT register more than once!
14. How to log in
⢠AFTER you register, your username will be:
YON-[your ID #]
For example: YON-2017123456
⢠Your password is whatever password you chose.
⢠If you forget your password, ask me and I will
find it for you.