Essay On Wide Reading

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The importance of wide reading in the growth of learners ' vocabulary is well recognized (Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Nagy, 1988). According to Scott and Nagy (1994): ". . . to promote the goal of vocabulary development, independent reading should be encouraged as a regular task." In fact, wide and independent reading is important to develop vocabulary of the learners because through this they come into contact of new vocabularies. Words like serenity, contaminate, stabilize, phenomenon, and anxiety are "necessary to make critical distinctions in the physical and social world in which we live" (Stanovich, 1992) and which assistance the learners to improve sensitivity to the subtleties in language and thought (Olson, 1986).
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Every individual words have their own meaning, i.e. comfort and dishonor, but they can also be a part of those words which do not have any particular kinds of meaning, i.e. prefixes (un-, re-, dis-) or suffixes (-ful, -ness). To the learners this morphological understanding is critical when they encounter less frequent words in their reading. From the observation of Aronoff (1994), it becomes clear that those learners who have good command of morphology they will face less problems in their reading. According to Aronoff (1994) “most new words encountered in reading are morphological outcomes of known words. Readers who have good command of morphology, will be able to understand these words without giving much effort, especially at the time of …show more content…

It is very important for the learners to identify the words which are valuable for understanding the text, when they will find an unfamiliar word, if it established that the word is not important to understand the text, then they can follow these

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