Point of extensive reading:
- Motivating – relatively easy, fun, matched to your interests
- Meet words in context
- Gain vocabulary quicker due to being vocabulary controlled (Zipf’s law)
Thai extensive reading strategies;
- Generate graded content with AI
- Simplify native content
- Use AI to simplify/generate/summarise
- Replace difficult words with English
- Use AI to translate English graded readers into Thai
- Narrow reading with Youtube
- Narrower vocab range with spoken thai?
- Easier language
- Reinforcement with audio and video for extra repetitions and understanding
Multiplier: repeated reading