Reading Power Vocabulary Text Hello, this is AJ again. Big smile...deep breath. Move that body, let's start the vocabulary lesson for "The Power of Reading."

<p>Reading Power Vocabulary Text</p> <p>Hello, this is AJ again. Big smile...deep breath. Move that body, let's start the</p> <p>vocabulary lesson for "The Power of Reading."</p> <p>Okay, one of the words we had in there was competence. Now, Dr. Krashen said</p> <p>people develop competence when they read. They develop the competence they need</p> <p>to move from the beginning level to a level where they can use the language for more</p> <p>difficult purposes. Competence, competence. Competence means skill or ability. So</p> <p>when you read you develop more advanced skill in English. You develop more</p> <p>advanced competence in English. So competence means skill or ability.</p> <p>And then we have the word demanding, right? He says you develop the competence</p> <p>for more demanding purposes. More demanding purposes, more demanding actions.</p> <p>More demanding challenges. Demanding just means difficult. Difficult. So in other</p> <p>words you get better and better. You can do more difficult things with the language. So</p> <p>in the beginning maybe you have very simple, low level English or maybe intermediate</p> <p>level English. Probably most of you are intermediate level. If you read my website and</p> <p>bought my lessons you are definitely intermediate level. So if you're intermediate level</p> <p>but you want to use English for more demanding purposes, more difficult purposes.</p> <p>Maybe now you can talk a little bit but you can't go to a high level business meeting and</p> <p>use English very well. That's a demanding purpose. It's a more difficult situation. It's a</p> <p>more demanding situation. So again, demanding has this idea of difficult, something</p> <p>that's difficult.</p> <p>Alright, then we also had the word literacy. Literacy, that people develop literacy by</p> <p>reading. Surprise, surprise, that seems pretty logical. Literacy means the ability to read</p> <p>well. So again, literacy is just the skill, the competence, the ability to read well. It has</p> <p>this idea of proficiency o