difficulty activity because readers must do some work at once. Readers have to think what comes to their mind from the text while some parts of the reader’s
bodies are also working, especially the eyes. Plus, those actions must accomplish altogether.
2. The Kinds of Reading
There are many kinds of texts people read in daily lives. They read it because they intended to, have purpose to reach and so on. Here, the researcher classifies
the types of reading into two approaches. The first is by its purpose and the second is by its process.
First, in the classification of the types of reading by its purpose, Nuttall stated a theory on her book. There are two approaches to distinguish types or reading.
Those are described traditionally as intensive reading and extensive reading.
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a. Intensive Reading
On her book, Nuttall affirmed that “intensive reading involves approaching the text under the guidance of the teacher or a task which forces to the students to
focus on the text. The aim is to arrive at an understanding, not only of what the text mean
s, but of how the meaning is produced.”
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It can be said that intensive reading is kind of reading used to develop students’ comprehension of reading
text. The text is designed for the students to be trained in finding what the meaning of the text is and how the meaning is produced in the text.
This type of reading is commonly used in the class by students learning foreign language. The reading passage or text itself has great deal of vocabularies
and grammar that are beyond the students’ ability. On the other word, it can be said that it requires higher degree understanding of elements of the text or
passage. So that is why this kind of text is used for improving students’ reading ability and comprehensions, but of course, it is done by teacher aid.
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Nuttall, op. cit., p. 38.
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Ibid.
b. Extensive Reading
