8. Strategies
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Intensive reading can be used to help learners develop useful reading strategies.
4. The Purpose of Reading
Reading is one of the activities that usually do by people in everywhere and every time. Many people have different purposes when they are reading a text or a
book, it can be for searching information or for reading pleasure. Because of this condition, the purposes of reading are become complex and vary. Many experts have
different idea about definition and explanation of reading. As Jo McDonough and Christopher Shaw in their book quote usefully classifies reading into:
a. Getting general information from the text b. Getting specific information from a text
c. For pleasure or for interest
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McDonough and Shaw divide the purpose of reading above, getting general it is mean that the reader want to know about the information from that book in
generally. The reader wants to know about all of the important information from that book text. While, getting specific information means that the reader want to know
the detail of the text, to know when or where something happen, to know what is happening or has happened in detail information which written in the text. The last is
reading for pleasure or interest, in this purpose the reader just want to feel relax and for their enjoyment in leisure time.
William Grabe and Fredricka L. Stoller state in their book about the purposes of reading as follows:
a. Reading to search for simple information and reading to skim b. Reading to learn from texts
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c. Reading to integrate information, write and critique texts d. Reading for general comprehension
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The first purpose is as same as with the purpose of reading above that is for search or gets the information. Because most people believe that this is a common
reading ability. It can use scan or skim. Scan is the ability to see the keywords for specific piece of information or a specific word in the text. Same with scan, skim is a
common part of reading task and it is useful skill in reading ability. Skim needs a good combination of strategy in reading also a good basic reading comprehension
skill. The second is reading to learn from texts, it occurs in academic and
professional context. It includes about the main idea, rhetorical frames, and link about the prior knowledge of the reader itself. The third is reading to integrated information,
write and critique texts. This purpose require critical evaluation of the information which being read, so the reader can integrate the information for the reader s goal.
Meanwhile reading to write and critique text need ability to compose, select, and critique the information from the text. The last is reading for general comprehension,
it is the most basic purpose of reading. This ability usually occurs automatically by fluent reader.
Francoise Grellet said in her book that the reasons for purpose of reading are reading for pleasure and reading for information in order to find out something or in
order to do something with the information you get.
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Reading become the activity to spending leisure time and also gets the information from the text after we read it.
In generally the idea of purpose of reading by some experts above have similarity. They agree that the first and the basic purpose of reading are to get
information and general comprehension from the text, which can use scan and skim technique. Reading also can be a pleasure activity in leisure time. Based on the
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