There is a widespread view that inten-sive reading as conducted at our univer-sities does more harm than good to stu-dents.If it is a kind of reaction or op-position to the traditional way of teach-ing,strongly influenced by the Russianmethodology in which grammar rules arethoroughly dealt with,and words minutelyexplained,it will probably meet with over- There is a widespread view that inten-sive reading as conducted at our univer-sities does more harm than good to stu-dents.If it is a kind of reaction or op-position to the traditional way of teach-ing, strongly influenced by the Russianmethodology in which grammar rules arethoughly dealt with, and words minutelyexplained, it will probably meet with over-