精读与泛读的异同

The Relationship Between Intensive Reading And Extensive Reading In the process of learning English in university, reading which can solidify and widen our language knowledge is an indispensable cognitive activity and it’s also the resourse of getting information and arousing interest. Reading comprehension is a critical part of studying, through which we can improve our reading ability based on which we can develop other various abilities, such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation. With the development of reading ability and the increasing of language knowledge, we know much than before.

Reading consists of intensive reading and extensive reading .In term of the psychological activity,intensive reading is same with extensive reading in many aspects,but they are different in the methods and purposes of reading.If we talk from the view of teaching,extensive reading is based on intensive reading.Therefore,students should study from intensive reading.

However,what is intensive reading and extensive reading?

Intensive reading refers to analyse a passage word by word,master the new words,phrases and grammer and understand the content and details through all kinds of reference books. The final aim of intensive reading is to make the readers digest the content completely and accurately by the carefully analysis. Intensive reading not only studys the language and the use of words,but also researches the material roundly .What’s more ,it also needs to chew well , use our brain frequently and take notes earnestly.In the beginning of 1960s, the Chinese famous mathmatician,professor Su Buqing,wrote an article about the studying method of him.In this article, he pointed out that his achievements were benefit from the mathematic monograph written by a Franch mathmatician.In order to understand the monograph,he had been learning Franch from letters for three years. In addition,another Chinese mathmatician called Yang Guanghou said,"I have ever read a math brochure for half a year and repeated to read it.There are obvious black lines on the white paper.It is very useful and helpful to our job.It’s not reading but eating." What he has said illustrates the importance of the intensive reading.

Extensive reading is another reading method,whose principal purpose is to widen vocabulary,enrich the cultural background and improve the reading ability,especially to grasp the point and understand the main idea through lots of reading.It is unnessary to consider every word and its point is to read abundantly and widely. Extensive reading is very important to college students and it is dabbled in every walk of life, because of which students can expand their knowledge widely. As Lu Xun said,"if only see a person's work, the result is not good, you won't get many advantages.You must work as a bees.Only by sipping many flowers ,can it produce honey.However,if it just lands on one place,less will it get,boring."Whereas, we also need to use the dialectical thinking to consider. Extensive reading on one hand is good for us, on the other hand also has its negative effects.Maybe we use an extensive way to read,which is too wide to get something useful.

Extensive reading is to read widely and get narrowly like the horizontal axis of the right Angle coordinate system,while intensive reading is to read carefully and get