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Chapter 4 summary: Vocabulary Learning and Intensive Reading Learning new vocabulary through intensive reading approach can help the language learners find this approach meaningful and relevant to their interests. Most of intensive reading found in classroom reading activities and drills because the intensive reading might need some explicit instruction and scaffolding. There are two goals for intensive reading which are understanding the text, and learning language features through focusing on details. Intensive reading and learning vocabulary are done through classroom learning activities such as simplifying meaning of text, putting words in an exercise after the text, adding a glossary, quickly giving the meaning, guessing meaning from the context, helping the learners use a dictionary, or simply ignore irrelevant words which might not relate to the main ideas or topic sentences. This chapter helps the teachers teach the learners how to read intensively through specific tasks of how to figure out the unknown words by using a dictionary which is helpful to the beginners and even intermediate levels. Using word parts to help a word be remembered can help the learners learn new words as well. Paul Nation also mentions about www.lextutor.ca in this chapter as well. So computerassisted intensive reading is definitely a helpful source for both learners and the teacher because there is a program to help the learners find spoken form and examples in context through the Hypertext program on Cobbs website. The teachers can also find meaning, and revision which includes dictation test, meaning test, the concordancer and the dictator. I found this chapter helpful because there are specific instruction of intensive reading teaching learning activities so I use the principles of this approach in establishing understanding of intensive reading for the learners from both bottom-up and top-down strategies in teaching.