Significance of the study
simultaneously.”
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The reader should decode and interpret the meaning of the information they have read at the same time.
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Therefore, reading determined to be a complex activity because readers should be able to transfer the message in the text
and interpret it through their own interpretation spontaneously. In summary, reading is an activity that involves the reader and the text. However,
reading is not only the activity how to pronounce the written symbol in the text but how we can comprehend the message well in the text. Therefore the relationship
between the reader and text should be built in order to obtain a comprehension. In order to get the essential of reading activity, the readers have to construct meaning
from text and interpret it through the idea.
2. The Purpose of Reading Each reader has different purposes for reading. They are depending on the
engagement of readers.As stated by the National Council of Teachers of English NCTE Commission on Reading,
“A reader‟s competence continues to grow through engagement with various types of texts and wide reading for various purposes over a
life time.”
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Therefore, the need of reading for one reader and others is different according to their purpose of reading. Rivers and Temperley show several points of
common purpose of readingas follows: - To obtain information for some purpose or because we are curious about some
topic; - To obtain instructions on how to perform some task for our work or daily life;
- To keep in touch with friends by correspondence or to understand business letters;
- To know when or where something will take place or what is available; - To know what is happening or has happened as reported in newspaper,
magazine , reports;
3
Colin Harrison and Terry Salinger, Assessing Reading 1: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 1998, p. 89.
4
Ibid.
5
National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Reading. “On Reading, Learning to
read, and effective reading instruction: An Overview of What We Know and How We K now It”. 2004,
April.p. 1.
- For enjoyment or excitement.
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As the discussion above, we can say that the purposes of reading are various; they are depending on the aim of reading which the readers want to achieve. It could
beconcluded that people read many texts in order to get the actual information which can support them to be advanced and informed people.
B.
Reading Comprehension Strategies