Theoretical Significances Practical Significances
interweave their background knowledge to create a better concept of their thought.
One of the keys to reach comprehension is by knowing the aims or the purposes of reading. The experts propose some motives of doing reading. Grabe
and Stoller 2011 classify, at least, four purposes of reading in general: 1 reading to search for simple information and reading to skim, 2 reading to learn
from texts, 3 reading to integrate information, write, and critique texts, and 4 reading for general comprehension. Reading to search for simple information is a
common reading ability, though some researchers see it as relatively independent cognitive process Guthrie Kirsch, 1987 in Grabe and Stoller, 2011:7.
In reading, the readers typically scan the text for specific information and skim the text for general understanding Grabe and Stoller, 2011. Reading to
learn typically occurs in academic and professional contexts in which readers need to learn a considerable amount of information from a text. Reading to
integrate information requires additional decisions of the readers about the importance of information from some sources, especially by supporting the
information, and restructuring their own concept. In reading for general comprehension, the readers need to have skills in forming a general meaning
representation of main ideas.