Reading Power Main Text Hi, this is AJ. Time for the next lesson. Now this is one of my favorite topics by one of my favorite people so I want you to be extra happy, extra strong body and physiology f

Reading Power Main Text

Hi, this is AJ. Time for the next lesson. Now this is one of my favorite topics by one of

my favorite people so I want you to be extra happy, extra strong body and physiology for

this one. So stand up straight. Get those shoulders back. Chest up. Breathe deep.

Get that air going in there. Energize your body. Big, big, super big smile, huge smile.

Make everyone think you're super crazy. Now move your body. Come on, get it moving

now. If you're standing you just kind of wiggle around. Move those arms, move those

legs. If you can, start walking. Get the blood going. Get that energy going. Let's go!

Are you ready?

This lesson is called "The Power of Reading" and it comes from an article by

Dr. Stephen Krashen. He's one of my favorite people in the world.

Dr. Stephen Krashen is probably the number one expert on language learning and

language teaching in the world. He is just an incredible professor, an incredible

researcher, an incredible intellectual. He has done an incredible amount of research on

the topic of learning languages. And today we're going to talk about just one part of his

research. Really, Effortless English is based a lot on Dr. Stephen Krashen's research,

all of the methods we use. But we're going to talk about just one particular method, one

particular idea, very strong idea that comes from Dr. Stephen Krashen and his research

and that is the power of reading. Specifically it's the power of pleasure reading. It's the

power of easy reading. We'll talk about that more in a minute.

But first let me read a little bit from this article. Now this article, as you might guess, is

about the power of reading. And Dr. Krashen did a lot of research about reading.

Specifically about how do people, native speakers, and people learning foreign

languages, how do they learn vocabulary? How do they get good grammar? How do

they get excellent writing skills? One of the most important methods is reading.

Reading for pleasure. Now when we talk about reading there are kind of two different

ways to learn reading, even for small children, learning a native language. Now one

method, the old method, is that you learn reading skills. So you have to study and

analyze vocabulary, for example.

Spelling in English is very difficult and tough so we have to study that a lot in school.

Well, we don't have to but often with old methods and old teachers we do. We study,

study, study spelling. We study, study, study vocabulary. And we learn all these skills.

We use all these textbooks to learn reading. And, of course, people learning new

language, a foreign language, well guess what. You do the same things, right? You

learn textbooks. You're reading all these textbooks and you're trying to learn all these

"reading skills."