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Types of Reading
Maija MacLeod

In this Page:

Overview

Intensive Reading

Extensive Reading

Intensive and Extensive Reading Together

Scanning

Skimming

Scanning and Skimming Together

References

Overview:
Aims of the web page:

Several types of reading may occur in a language classroom. One way in which these
may be categorized , as suggested by Brown (1989) can be outlined as follows:

A. Oral
B. Silent
I. Intensive
a. linguistic
b. content
II. Extensive
a. skimming
b. scanning
c. global

The first distinction that can be made is whether the reading is oral or silent. This web
page will not deal with oral reading, only silent reading.

Within the category of silent reading, one

encounters intensive and extensive reading. Intensive reading is used to teach or
practice specific reading strategies or skills. The text is treated as an end in
itself. Extensive reading on the other hand, involves reading of large quantities of
material, directly and fluently. It is treated as a means to an end. It may include
reading reading simply for pleasure or reading technical, scientific or professional
material. This later type of text, more academic, may involve two specific types of
reading, scanning for key details or skimming for the essential meaning. A
relatively quick and efficient read, either on its own or after scanning or skimming,
will give a global or general meaning.

This web page then will first examine intensive reading. The second part will deal
with extensive reading, with a focus on how it results in a general or global meaning.
The fourth part gives a short comment on how intensive and extensive reading may
operate in the same class. The fourth part examines scanning and the fifth, scanning.
A final sixth part comments on how scanning and skimming may be used in the same
reading.

Intensive Reading
In this section:
What it is
How it looks
-Characteristics
-Materials
-Skills developed
-Activities
-Assessment
When it is used
Role of the teacher
Advantages
Disadvantages
Questions sometimes asked

What it is

Brown (1989) explains that intensive reading "calls attention to grammatical

forms, discourse markers, and other surface structure details for the purpose of
understanding literal meaning, implications, rhetorical relationships, and the
like." He draws an analogy to intensive reading as a "zoom lens" strategy .
Long and Richards (1987) say it is a "detailed in-class" analysis, led by the
teacher, of vocabulary and grammar points, in a short passage."
Intensive Reading, sometimes called "Narrow Reading", may involve
students reading selections by the same author or several texts about the same
topic. When this occurs, content and grammatical structures repeat themselves
and students get many opportunities to understand the meanings of the text.
The success of "Narrow Reading" on improving reading comprehension is
based on the premise that the more familiar the reader is with the text, either
due to the subject matter or having read other works by the same author, the
more comprehension is promoted.

How it looks

Characteristics:

usually classroom based

reader is intensely involved in looking inside the text
students focus on linguistic or semantic details of a reading
students focus on surface structure details such as grammar and discourse
markers
students identify key vocabulary
students may draw pictures to aid them (such as in problem solving)
texts are read carefully and thoroughly, again and again
aim is to build more language knowledge rather than simply practice the skill
of reading
seen more commonly than extensive reading in classrooms

Materials:

usually very short texts - not more than 500 words in length
chosen for level of difficulty and usually, by the teacher
 chosen to provide the types of reading and skills that the teacher wants to
cover in the course

Skills developed:

rapid reading practice

interpreting text by using:
-word attack skills

-text attack skills

-non-text information

Activities:

Intensive reading exercises may include:

looking at main ideas versus details

understanding what is implied versus stated
making inferences
looking at the order of information and how it effects the message
identifying words that connect one idea to another
identifying words that indicate change from one section to another

Munby (1979) suggests four categories of questions that may be used in intensive
reading. These include:

1. Plain Sense - to understand the factual, exact surface meanings in the text
2. Implications - to make inferences and become sensitive to emotional tone and
figurative language
3. Relationships of thought - between sentences or paragraphs
4. Projective - requiring the integration of information from the text to one's own
background information

Note that questions may fall into more than one category.
.

Assessment:

Assessment of intensive reading will take the form of reading tests and quizzes.
The most common systems of questioning are multiple-choice and free-response.
Mackay (1968) , in his book Reading in a Second Language, reminds teachers that
the most important objective in the reading class should NOT be the testing of the
student to see if they have understood. Teachers should, instead, be spending most of
the time training the student to understand what they read.

When it is used

when the objective of reading is to achieve full understanding of:

- logical argument
- rhetorical pattern of text
- emotional, symbolic or social attitudes and purposes of the author
- linguistic means to an end

for study of content material that are difficult

Role of the teacher

The teacher chooses suitable text.

The teacher chooses tasks and activities to develop skills.
 The teacher gives direction before, during and after reading.
The teacher prepares students to work on their own. Often the most difficult
part is for the teacher to "get out of the way" .
The teacher encourages students through prompts, without giving answers.

Advantages

It provides a base to study structure, vocabulary and idioms.

It provides a base for students to develop a greater control of language
It provides for a check on the degree of comprehension for individual students

Disadvantages

There is little actual practice of reading because of the small amount of text.
In a class with multi-reading abilities, students may not be able to read at their
own level because everyone in the class is reading the same material.
The text may or may not interest the reader because it was chosen by the
teacher.
There is little chance to learn language patterns due to the small amount of
text.
Because exercises and assessment usually follow intensive reading, students
may come to associate reading with testing and not pleasure.

Questions sometimes asked

Should the text be read aloud first or some explanation given?

- Nuttall (1986) suggests that if the teacher reads the text aloud before starting work
on it, they have assumed part of the students' job.
- Others argue that without some help some students could not understand the text.
- Still others argue that it is easy to underestimate students. they may actually
understand more than is thought. If students cannot make any progress, the material
may be unsuitable.

Extensive Reading
In this section:
What it is
Historical perspective
Background theory
How extensive reading may appear in a language class
- Types of programs
-Characteristics
- Materials
- Activities
- Assessment
Role of teacher
Role of student
Advantages
Challenges
Research topics

What it is

Brown (1989) explains that extensive reading is carried out "to achieve a
general understanding of a text."
Long and Richards (1971, p.216) identify extensive reading as "occurring
when students read large amounts of high interest material, usually out of
 class, concentrating on meaning, "reading for gist" and skipping unknown
words."
The aims of extensive reading are to build reader confidence and enjoyment.
Extensive reading is always done for the comprehension of main ideas, not for
specific details.

Historical Perspective

Harold Palmer (1917) in Britain and Michael West (1926) in India were the
first to pioneer the theory of extensive reading as an approach to foreign
language teaching and to reading, in particular. Palmer chose the term
"extensive reading" to distinguish it from "intensive reading".
the 1929 Coleman Report on "Modern Foreign Language Study", introducing
the Reading Method , recommended the inclusion of extensive reading in its
Method (as distinct from inclusive reading).

- Students were to read in the second language without a conscious effort to

translate.
- Emphasis was placed on developing independent silent reading
and increasing reading rate of individual students.
- Frequency word counts were developed and used as a basis for graded
readers.

Broughton(1978) argued for the important role Extensive Reading could play
in second language programs.
Nuttall (1982) wrote that the idea of Extensive Reading should be "standard
practice" in second language learning. She suggested the following
"slogan": "The best way to improve your
knowledge of a foreign language is to go and live among the speakers . The
next best way is to read extensively." (p.168)
Krashen (1984) supported Extensive Reading because he felt it automatically
gave rise to competence in writing. In 1993, he termed it "free voluntary
reading".
Krashen (1995) argued that 'free voluntary reading" could be used a a "bridge"
from communicative language competence to academic language competence.
David Eskey (1995) drew the analogy of reading instruction to teaching
swimming strokes to people who hated the water. It would be only through
their discovery of the rewards of reading by actually doing it, that they would
become people that can and do read.
Elley (1996), in his report on a study involving 210,000 students and 10,000
teachers in 32 educational systems around the world, concluded that
"instructional programs that stress teacher directed drills and skills are less
beneficial in raising literacy levels than programs that try to capture students'
interest and encourage them to read independently."
Dupre's research (1997) in French supported the theory that Extensive Reading
is more pleasurable and beneficial for language acquisition than grammar
instruction and practice.
Nuttal (1998) argued the case for Extensive Reading programs citing research
studies that showed "impressive" gains in reading ability, motivation and
attitude, and overall linguistic competence. There was also evidence of gains
in vocabulary and spelling.

Although research strongly suggests that extensive reading can boost second language
acquisition, few second language learners engage in voluntary reading at their own
initiative, ( i.e. Reluctant Readers) and require guidance in the form of Extensive
Reading programs.

Background theory

Several theories come into play in Extensive Reading:

 Krashen's Input Hypothesis (1982) made a distinction between acquisition
and learning. For Krashen, the dominant mode of language learning is
inacquisition, the largely subconscious "picking up of the language" which
characterizes language in informal settings and which is similar, if not
identical, to the way children develop ability in their first language." (
p.10) Language acquisition represents unconscious learning which takes place
when attention is focused on meaning rather than form. In order to acquire
language, Krashen suggested the learner must be exposed to large amounts of
second language input that was "meaningful" , interesting, relevant, not
grammatically sequenced, and in a low anxiety setting. It is felt that
Extensive Reading programs provide such an environment.
The L1=L2 Hypothesis suggests that second language learning, like the first,
follows a highly predictable pattern. If the conditions of first language
acquisition are approximated by extensive second language reading, the
second language learner can achieve native like competence in a classroom.
An extension of this suggests that reading for pleasure from appropriate
second language texts provides subconscious and progressively more
difficult second language input much like that essential for first language
acquisition.
Rumelhart (1980) proposed an "interactive model" of the reading
process in which reading is a complex task of simultaneously combining
"bottom-up" processes (in which the reader analyzes text in small pieces and
builds meaning from these) and "top-down" processes (in which the reader
makes "guesses" about the content of a passage). It is thought that Extensive
Reading programs provide the quantities of reading practice necessary for the
automaticity of the "bottom-up" (word recognition) process.

How extensive reading may appear in a language class

Types of programs:

Extensive reading may appear as any of the following:

1. a complement to an intensive reading program

2. an extra-curricular activity where students read out of class
3. the main focus of a reading course (termed an Extensive Reading Program)
where students work with a class set of books, individual reading of material,
of their own choice, with follow-up activities such as reading logs, reading
journals, book reports or projects. Although it is less common for extensive
reading to form an entire reading course, there are well-
established Extensive Reading Programs operating around the world. They
have been carried on in many countries, at varying levels of education from
Elementary School to College, and in different languages.

Characteristics:

Day and Bamford (1980) put forward ten characteristics identified in successful
Extensive Reading Programs. They are duplicated (in abbreviated form) below:

1. Students read as much as possible.

2. A variety of materials on a range of topics is available.
3. Students select what they want to read .
4. The purposes of reading are usually related to pleasure, information and
general understanding.
5. Reading is its own reward.
6. Reading materials are well within the linguistic competence of the students in
terms of vocabulary and grammar.
7. Reading is individual and silent.
8. Reading speed is usually faster than slower.
9. Teachers orient students to the goals of the program.
 10. The teacher is a role model of a reader for the students.

Bell (2001), in his article "Extensive Reading : What is it? Why bother?" gives ten
pieces of practical advice on running Extensive Reading programs.

Materials:

With demands for both simplicity and authenticity, the teacher must choose from the
following:

Graded Readers available by major publishers (e.g.. Cambridge University Press ,

Heinemann, Oxford and Penguin
-These are readers with specific levels of word frequency and idiom counts and
the introduction of new vocabulary at a planned rate.
-Broughton (1978) favors using graded readers where less than one word in
every hundred is unfamiliar.
-These are a good choice for students whose second language proficiency makes
it difficult for them to read texts written for native speakers.

Texts on the same

topic -Reading more
than one text on the same topic allows students to bring more background knowledge
to each new text read.

Authentic materials such as newspapers, magazines, that are related to the second
language culture

Web
resources -
These should we chosen from suggestions by the teacher so that students do not
choose those that are too
overwhelming .

Stories and articles chosen by the teacher, with the following guidelines:

1. The style should include repetition, without being monotonous.

2. New vocabulary should not occur at the same place as difficulties of structure.
3. The text should break in sections that are not too long. This is to give the
reader a feeling of accomplishment when completed.
4. Authors should be chosen with less complex structure and less extensive
vocabulary range.
5. The subject matter should be of real interest to the students and suitable for
their age level. Rivers (1981) suggests the subject matter should be as close as
possible to the type of material the students would read in their first language.

Some thought may be given to socio-cultural issues. Should there be an attempt to

match materials to students' cultural background? Students bring different knowledge
of text types from their first language. Is it feasible to include these in the materials?

Annotated reading lists are available, suggesting books that can be read for pleasure
and a minimum of frustration for new language learners. Books that are
recommended for English as a Second Language include the following:

-Brown, D.S. (1988) A World of Books: An Annotated Reading List for ESL/EFL
Students (2nd ed.) Washington, DC: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages.
-Brown, D.S. (1994) Books for a Small Planet: A Multicultural-Intercultural
Bibliography From Young Young English Learners . Alexandria, VA: Teachers of
English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Materials should be chosen that are at or below the reading ability of the student.
They are usually at a lower level of difficulty than those chosen for intensive reading.
This is for several reasons:

1. It builds automatic recognition of words

2. It allows the reader to see words in "chunks" of language, allowing for faster
reading.

Activities that may occur:

Reading may be combined with a speaking component. For example, they may
interview each other about their reading.
Reading may be combined with a writing component. For example, after
reading the newspaper, students may be asked to write a newspaper report.
Class time may be included for book exchange, if there is an in-class library.
Students may set their own goals for their next session.
Students may progress from reading graded reading material to authentic text
. It should be expected that students will "slow down" in their reading then, it
it becomes more challenging.
Students may complete any of the following:

1. a reading log (recording number of pages read and at what

level) 2. a reading journal (reflections on the text read)
A reading journal may take the following format:
- date, title of book and author
- the category of the book if known by the student
- a brief statement on what the book is about
- a summary of each part as it is read
- student's reactions to each part
Often teachers will respond to the students and if so, the student should
leave room in the journal for this.
3. a reflection on what they noticed about their own reading
4. a book report or summary - Helgesen (1997) recommends not spending
more than 20 minutes on a report
5. a retelling of part of the text
6. book project

In some Extensive Reading Programs, teachers will allow their students to

report on their reading in their native language so as not to make the "proof" of
reading more difficult than the reading itself. This, of course, only works if the
teacher understands the student's first language.

Extensive reading programs are often cited as being more "pleasurable"

because there are no "tedious" exercises to complete.

Assessment:

there are no reading comprehension exercises or formal assessments in

Extensive Reading programs.
Course grades for an Extensive Reading program may be determined by marks
given for reading reports, reading journals, book reports and projects.

Role of Teacher

The teacher gives recommendations on reading materials, based on student's

interests.
 - The teacher guides students in choosing appropriate levels of material,
beginning with easy books.
- The teacher guides students in choosing a variety of materials of their interest.
This may especially be necessary for students that choose the same type
over and over.

The teacher guides students in setting specific goals for amounts read.
The teacher provides modeling. If class time is given for reading, the teacher
reads at the same time.
The teacher overlooks if students are not aware of the exact meaning of each
word. The teacher should not jump in and explain.
The teacher leads pre-reading activities to build interest in the text, such as in
the characters, places, themes, and actions. The teacher must be careful to
provide just enough to stimulate curiosity but not so much that the need to
read is removed.

Role of Student

The student assumes total responsibility for developing reading ability .

The student reads without the use of a dictionary.
The student usually chooses their own material and moves along at their own
pace but must push themselves in order to show greater progress.

Advantages

The students may:

- develop a "reading habit"

- gain more confidence in reading
-improve their attitude towards reading and become more motivated to read
- feel more autonomous over their own learning and more likely to take more
initiative. - become more " independent readers", being able to read for
different purposes and being able to change reading strategies for different kinds of
texts
- become more aware of what's available to them to read and how to access materials
- expand sight vocabulary
- acquire "incidental" grammatical competence - that is, it may be acquired even
though it was not directly taught
-build background knowledge
- increase reading comprehension
- improve overall language competence
- be more prepared for further academic courses because they have read large
quantities

An Extensive Reading program may be combined with writing or combined

with speaking practice in a meaningful way (such as when students discuss
with each other the books they have been reading.
Broughton (1978) suggested that "It is by pursuing the activity of extensive
reading that the volume of practice necessary to achieve rapid and efficient
reading can be achieved." (p.92)
Krashen (1993a) suggested that the benefits of free voluntary reading included
"enhanced language acquisition and literacy development, more ideas and
information, greater success in life, loss of verbal memory, and more fun."

Challenges:

An Extensive Reading program may be costly and time-consuming to set up if

materials are not already available. It may be difficult to get support from
Administration.
Students need to have easy access to texts within their language proficiency
level. An Extensive Reading program is easiest to establish when the students
 have a high level of second language proficiency. For intermediate levels,
students require a specialized library within their language proficiency range.
They need texts they can read without great use of a dictionary.
It may be difficult to keep students challenged to read more difficult texts as
the program continues. Some established programs use a "weighing scale" for
students to record materials read, giving more "marks" for materials read at a
higher level. Although this has proven to be a motivating or competitive factor
in some cases, in others it becomes counter-productive if students try to read
texts that are more difficult than they can manage and consequently become
discouraged.
Reading each student's journals and reports can be very time-consuming for
teachers.
Students who come from a culture in which literacy is not valued may be
unwilling to participate in pleasure reading or may not get support at home.
Some teachers prefer a skills based program and do not feel comfortable with
Extensive Reading.
Some teachers are unaware of how to use Graded Readers and so, provide a
limited range of activities for students, limiting their responses.
Some teachers feel that time spent on Extensive Reading will take away from
time that could be spent on learning language skills. Others will argue that
Extensive Reading provides a "richer context" for practice.
Some people feel that if graded readers are used, they can give a false
impression of the level of reading that has been achieved. They feel that some
students may try "ungraded" materials too soon and may revert to using a
dictionary to translate.
Some people feel that students may place too much emphasis on the number of
pages read instead of on the understanding achieved.
Students that have only been exposed to Intensive Reading programs may not
believe that Extensive Reading is a "proper" way to learn.
Aeberscold (1997) reported that feedback from students in an Extensive
Reading program indicated that they liked the "choice" but not the "load"

Research topics

What is the impact of extensive reading on attitude and motivation to read?

How does vocabulary acquisition while reading compare to direct vocabulary
instruction?
What is the relation between amounts of reading and growth in reading
comprehension?
What are the students' perceptions of their reading, their habits and
difficulties?
Do students that have an extensive reading component of their program show
greater improvements reading than students who have no such component?
Do the use of simplified authentic texts actually increase comprehension or
simply confidence?
Past studies have shown that extensive reading leads to gains in students'
second language proficiency as measured on cloze tests. Would the use of
clozeexercises in addition to extensive reading be more effective than
intensive reading alone?
What other improvements in the area of language uses and language
knowledge may result from Extensive Reading?

Intensive and Extensive Reading Together

It is common for both approaches to reading to be used in the same class. For
example, where extensive reading is encouraged, the teacher may have all the students
read the same text so they can discuss the topic together or learn a specific skill such
as as writing an outline.
In a class where intensive reading is mostly used, students may be asked to read texts
of their own choosing to report back on, in either an oral or written format.
In both approaches, it is not the nature of the skills that are of most interest but rather,
the results.

Scanning
In this section:
What it is
When it is used
Role of Teacher
Role of Student
Activities
Research Questions

What it is

Scanning ia a quick reading, focusing on locating specific information.

Scanning involves quick eye movements, not necessarily linear in fashion, in
which the eyes wander until the reader finds the piece of information needed.
Scanning is used when a specific piece of information is required, such as a
name, date, symbol, formula, or phrase, is required. The reader knows what
the item looks like and so, knows when he has located what he was searching
for. It is assumed then, that very little information is processed into long-term
memory or even for immediate understanding because the objective is simply
matching.

When it is used

Scanning is used often with technical, scientific or professional materials to

locate specific information.
Scanning is a valuable skill for second language learners to develop because
often they do not require a detailed read of a text. There are many everyday
uses for scanning, relevant to a purpose, such as reading a schedule.

Role of Teacher

The teacher selects passages that do include specific information.

The teacher may use authentic materials that are commonly scanned in real
life, such as the telephone directory, menus, bus schedules.
The teacher may ask students before they scan a text to note how the
information is organized in the text.
The teacher needs to remind students that as they read carefully to find the
required information, they should pay particular attention to titles and
keywords.

Role of the Student

The student forms questions before reading. What specific information are
they looking for?
The student looks for contextual clues. The student tries to anticipate what the
answer might look like and what sorts of clues would be useful.
The student is aware of the graphic form that the answer may take, such as a
numeral, a written number, a capitalized word or a short phrase that includes
key words.

Activities
 Activities may include exercises that are devised by the teacher in which
students scan for a single word or specific text .
Activities may include exercises that are often carried on as a competition so
students will work quickly.
Students use skills of prediction and anticipation. Students may do any of the
following:

- make predictions and guesses

- use titles and tables of contents to get an idea of what a passage is about
- activate prior knowledge about the topic of the passage by answering some
questions or performing a quiz
- anticipate what they want to learn about the top
- use titles, pictures, and prior knowledge to anticipate the contents of the text
- use key words, that may have been given to them by the teacher, that do not appear
in the text, that allude to the main idea

It is an accepted view today that efficient readers are not passive. They react
with a text by having expectations and ideas about the purposes of the text as
well as possible outcomes. They reflect on expectations as they read, anticipate
what will come next. In other words, they "interact with the text".

Research Questions

Does the skill of scanning transfer from the first language to the second?

Skimming
In this section:
What it is
When it is used
Role of the teacher
Role of the student
Activities
Research Questions

What it is

Skimming is a quick reading to get:

- to know the general meaning of a

passage - to know how the passage is
organized, that is, the structure of the text - to get an idea of
the intention of the writer

Skimming is a more complex task than scanning because it requires the reader
to organize and remember some of the information given by the author, not
just to locate it.
Skimming is a tool in which the author's sequence can be observed, unlike
scanning in which some predetermined information is sought after.

When it is used

Skimming is used when reading some some general question in mind.

Skimming is used in making decisions on how to approach a text such as when
determining if a careful reading is deserving.
Skimming is used to build student confidence and an understanding that it is
possible to gain meaning without reading every word in a text.
 Skimming is used as part of the SQ3R method of reading, often for speed
reading. This method involves the student
in surveying, questioning, reading, reviewing and reciting. Skimming is used
for the initial survey and for review.
Skimming is a skill that a student may want to develop if they are planning to
continue with academic studies. It is often used in reviewing for a test.

Role of the teacher

Before the students start reading, the teacher should guide students to ask
themselves the following questions:

- What kind of audience was the text written for? Was it, for example, the general
public, technical readers, or academic students?
- What type of text is it? Is it, for example, a formal letter, an advertisement, or a set
of instructions?
- What was the author's purpose? Was it , for example, to persuade, to inform or
to instruct?

The teacher should make the following clear to students before assigning a
skimming exercise:

1. the purpose of the exercise

2. how deeply the text is to be read

Role of the student

Students read through the text in the following manner:

1. Read the title if any.

2. Read the introduction or the first paragraph.
3. Read the first sentence of each of the following paragraphs.
4. Read any headings or sub-headings.
5. Look at any pictures or phrases that are in boldface or italics
6. Read the summary or last paragraph.

Activities

Students must locate facts that are expressed in sentences, not single words.
Although speed is essential and the teacher often sets a time limit to the
activity, skimming should not be done competitively. Students should be
encouraged individually to better themselves.
To improve skimming, readers should read more and more rapidly, to form
appropriate questions and predictions and then read quickly
Pugh (1978) suggests that to assess skimming, after the students have read and
completed the assigned questions, further questions may be asked, "beyond the
scope of the purpose originally set" (p.70). If students can answer these
questions correctly, it indicates they have read the text too closely.

Research Questions

Does the skill of skimming transfer from the first language to the second?

Skimming and Scanning Together

Skimming and scanning are sometimes referred to as types of reading and at other
times, as skills.
Skimming involves a thorough overview of a text and implies a reading competence.
Scanning is more a limited activity, only retrieving information relevant to a purpose.

Brown (1994) suggest ed that "perhaps the two most valuable reading strategies for
learners as well as native speakers are skimming and scanning." (p.283)

Pugh (1978) suggested that since scanning is a less complex style of reading it can be
introduced first. Skimming requires greater fluency and more practice is required, so it
should be introduced later.

Often skimming and scanning are used together when reading a text. For example, the
reader may skim through first to see if it is worth reading, then read it more carefully
and scan for a specific piece of information to note.

Students need to learn that they need to adapt their reading and techniques to the
purpose of the reading.

By practicing skimming and scanning, the individual learns to read and select specific
information without focussing on information that is not important for meaning.

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