Types of Oral

Beginning and

classroom Intermediate levels

Advanced Students

Reading
performance Extensive
Reading CLASSROOM
READING
Silent
Subcategorized into
Pleasure reading PERFORMANCE
INTENSIVE AND
Longer texts
EXTENSIVE
Students read for
understanding
Intensive
Advantages Reading
1. Bottom- up processing Classroom-oriented activiy
Linguistic or semantic detailes
skills.
Grammatical form, and
2. Pronunciation check discourse markers.
Disadvantages
3. Students participation to
1. Not an authentic language activity
highlight a segment of a 2. lack of students' attention
reading. 3. Mere recitation