2025-05-23
6 分钟Reading.
Reading is powerful, powerful for learning anything.
And particularly for learning languages,
I could add reading and listening and the combination of the two.
And particularly today when we have access to so much material on the internet in both audio and video and text format,
the ability to manipulate the text,
to mine it for words and structures and all of the things that we do at LingQ that became possible because of modern technology.
Now, long before all of this became possible, a man named Stephen Krashen.
launched the idea of extensive reading.
In other words, making it easier for people, for learners to... read,
not only in their own language, but in a language that they're learning,
that a natural process of language acquisition,
vocabulary acquisition would then take place and that this was better than a more classroom-centered or teacher-centered way of improving language learning,
language acquisition results.
So when it comes to reading and listening,
we can talk about extensive reading, as Stephen Krashen did,
or intensive reading, which I find that I often do when I start into learning a new language.
So extensive reading, which Stephen Krashen Krashen was a proponent of,
and Beniko Mason, a Japanese linguist and pedagogue, who was, I think,
involved in the development of a Japanese version of extensive reading, which is called tadoku,