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:

Underwood Memorial Library, Songdo Campus

4th floor – go to the right side after you get out of the elevator

OR

Buy them from:

Yonsei bookstore, Kyobo, Bandi & Luni’s etc…

Where??

• Right hand side of the first shelf in the section

Which books?

• Shorter graded readers (not the original books)

• Look for books with “UML 428” on them

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)

• 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

Register

Access code: find it on at the top of your

course page on my website – under the Link to Mreader

Your ID number = Yonsei ID # (e.g. 2017123456)

DO NOT register more than once!

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.

Student page

View available quizzes

You can search books by:

1. Entering search words

2. Selection criteria: genre, publisher, fiction/non-fiction, level, images/words

View available quizzes

If you’re not sure of your level, click here:

Happy reading!