Different between Extensive and Intensive Reading

1. Purpose :

· In extensive reading the purpose is to understanding generally what the book tells about, usually, the vocabulary of extensive reading is the easy one or the vocabulary that usually use the readers only a little bite that difficult one. So that, the readers to be enjoyment what they read not to borring. And, they have a fantastic spirit for finishing it and try to read more book like it too.

Extensive Reading

I. Definition of Extensive Reading

• Brown (1989) explains that extensive reading is carried out "to achieve a general understanding of a text."
• Long and Richards (1971, p.216) identify extensive reading as "occurring when students read large amounts of high interest material, usually out of class, concentrating on meaning, "reading for gist" and skipping unknown words."
• The aims of extensive reading are to build reader confidence and enjoyment.
• Extensive reading is always done for the comprehension of main ideas, not for specific details.

Intensive Reading

I. Definition of Intensive Reading

• Brown (1989) explains that intensive reading "calls attention to grammatical forms, discourse markers, and other surface structure details for the purpose of understanding literal meaning, implications, rhetorical relationships, and the like." He draws an analogy to intensive reading as a "zoom lens" strategy . 
• Long and Richards (1987) say it is a "detailed in-class" analysis, led by the teacher, of vocabulary and grammar points, in a short passage."