Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLCAS
readers’ background knowledge. In this case, the readers need more time to understand the text because they need to connect text
information with their background knowledge. c.
Reading to integrate information The readers
’ goal of this purpose is using their critical evaluation of the information being read to decide what information to
integrate and how to integrate it. The tasks of this purpose may be reading to write and reading to critique texts that represent common
academic tasks which need reading abilities to integrate information. d.
Reading for general comprehension Reading for general comprehension becomes the most basic
purpose in reading and more complex than commonly assumed. When a skilled fluent reader accomplish this purpose, the reader needs very
rapid and automatic processing of words, strong skills in forming a general meaning of the main ideas, and time management to organize
many processes. According to the explanation above, it can be conclude that the
main purpose of reading is for increasing knowledge by a variety of ways, such as taking lesson from the texts, searching simple information and so
on.