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.

3. Types of Reading

There are various types of reading. According to Broughton et.al, types of reading are divided into reading aloud, silent reading, intensive reading and extensive reading. 29 The first type is Reading aloud. This type of reading is concerned on oral matter primarily that is focused on pronunciation than to comprehension. It cannot be done using unfamiliar text. A familiar text is 29 Geoffrey Broughton, et.al., Teaching English as a Foreign Language, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 92-93. needed in reading aloud. The text should consist of the content and language which are clearly understood. The second type is Silent reading which most used by people in the world to review material which will be studied, to skimming information is being sought, to get comprehension in reading for pleasure, to learn the content of the text, and to learn the written language material. Next, Intensive reading is concerned on the detailed comprehension of very short texts —no more than 500 words, in order to achieve full understanding of the logical argument, pattern of the text of its symbolic, emotional, attitudes and purposes of the author. The last, Extensive reading is to cover the greatest possible quantity of text in the shortest possible time and it needs amount of practice to achieve rapid and efficient reading.

4. Factors Influence Reading