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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/protect-reading-flow-with-material-you-can-actually-keep-reading",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1140",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Protect reading flow with material you can actually keep reading",
  "summary": "Extensive reading needs enough ease for volume to exist.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Keep a substantial share of reading at a difficulty where you can follow the message continuously and tolerate some unknown language. Use harder texts for bounded intensive work, but do not let every reading session become sentence analysis. Sustained reading provides repeated contact with vocabulary, syntax and discourse at a scale drills cannot reproduce.",
  "limits": [
    "There is no single scientifically fixed unknown-word percentage that suits every text and learner. Comprehension and sustained flow are the operational tests."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-language-reading-writing-and-multilingual-control"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-D23ACDC5FEE480C7"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A 2025 meta-analysis found positive small-to-medium effects of extensive reading across reading comprehension, vocabulary, decoding/fluency, motivation, writing, oral proficiency and general language proficiency.",
      "source_id": "RS-D23ACDC5FEE480C7",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Extensive reading programs varied substantially, and positive average effects do not define one universal text difficulty or weekly volume.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Reading practice stops every few lines for dictionary work and feels like decoding rather than reading."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "There is no single scientifically fixed unknown-word percentage that suits every text and learner. Comprehension and sustained flow are the operational tests."
  ],
  "example": "A B2 German learner reads an accessible nonfiction book for flow while using a dense legal article only for a short intensive session.",
  "check": "Most extensive-reading time is spent following ideas rather than operating the dictionary.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-D23ACDC5FEE480C7",
      "title": "Learning a Language Through Reading: A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Effects of Extensive Reading on Second and Foreign Language Learning",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-025-10068-6"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1140",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1141",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/add-light-accountability-to-extensive-reading"
    },
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1140",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1142",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/keep-extensive-and-intensive-reading-as-different-modes"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-81FD7B9C261CB553",
      "title": "Use reading, writing and multilingual feedback without losing transfer",
      "url": "/collections/use-reading-writing-and-multilingual-feedback-without-losing-transfer"
    }
  ]
}