| Intensive
reading is the approach most often adopted when working on L2 texts in class.
This type of reading, which seeks to grasp the whole message, including
both main arguments and supporting detail, encourages careful, literal processing
of text. At times it is an essential approach to reading but it carries
with it the danger that learners come to accept it as the only way to read.
When it is used, therefore, the teacher needs to make a point of clarifying
the purpose and emphasizing that it is an inappropriate, occasionally even
inadequate approach to adopt on certain types of text. See Module
8 for a range of approaches to intensive
reading in class. |
