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From http://blog.tesol.org

Robert Sheppard writes, “Comprehensible input is valuable because it provides learners with repeated, contextualized, meaningful encounters with new language, leading to acquisition. Presumably, a greater number of encounters with new vocabulary and grammatical forms will hasten and strengthen that acquisition. This is where narrow input comes in. If students are reading multiple texts on a particular subject matter, they are going to encounter more of the language relevant thereto. If they are reading one particular author’s works, they will encounter her favorite words and turns of phrase, and the structures that mark their style. Thus, the theory goes, narrow input is a more efficient form of comprehensible input.”

Read more about narrow input at http://blog.tesol.org/narrowing-in-on-narrow-input/