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 Thursday October 26 2006

Intensive vs Extensive reading

I was considering writing a post about extensive reading sometime in November but while surfing for information to support my arguments I came across two posts by Mark of Tosuo.com. I’ve been reading Mark’s blog for a few months now, but these posts were written before I started reading.

intensive reading

extensive reading



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 06:15 PM
general_linguistic_study | Teaching |

강미

강미 wrote 15 words  on  Thursday Oct 26, 2006  at  07:48 PM United States

I’d like to do extensive reading for Korean study, but the problem is finding content.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 35 words  on  Thursday Oct 26, 2006  at  08:00 PM Korea (South)

Don’t I know it. I wish there were graded readers available in Korean. I make do with reading what I can and often going in spurts before giving up because it is too damn difficult.

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Mark wrote 14 words  on  Thursday Oct 26, 2006  at  08:44 PM Taiwan

I can’t even find extensive readers for Chinese learners.  Korean must really be hopeless.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 35 words  on  Thursday Oct 26, 2006  at  08:54 PM Korea (South)

Mark,
The teachers at Sogang University (the best Korean language program IMO) are interested in graded readers but cannot get a budget for it. At least that is what I heard from a reliable resource.

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