the teacher should pay more attention by asking randomly the students to answer the question.
d. Wasting instructional time. Teacher has to stated clear instruction, sometimes he has to repeat the instruction often because they concern with
their group and they ignore the teacher.
B. Reading 1. The Understanding of Reading
Each person has their own opinions about reading. Most of us think reading as a simple, passive process that involves reading words in a linear
and internalizing their meaning one at a time. However, reading is a very complex process that requires a great deal of active participation on the part of
the reader to keep and use the information.
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Reading is not only translates each word but also involves a cognitive process of understanding a printed
message. It must be viewed from every angle in order to complete the process of understanding
. Reading could be defined as a communication between what the reader
already knows and what the writers writes on a page.
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When people want to know about something or new information, usually people ask to someone
who knows about what they want to know, or read the information in the article, newspaper, magazine, and textbooks. Similarly, when people read a
text, they need to perceive and decode letters in order to read words and gather meaning from what people read.
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Thus, if people do not want to read, they will not get the information. It becomes reading activity is very important in
our life.
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Arthy. V and Dr. P Nagaraj, Enhancing Reading Comprehension Skills through Small Group Interaction Techniques: A Comparative Study, International Journal of Scientific Research,
2012, p.1.
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David Nunan, Designing Task for the Communicative Classroom, Sydney: Cambridge University Pree, 1999, p.33.
20
Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, p.138.
Most reading educators believe that reading is either a process or group of processes employed by an individual to discover what an author say
from the text as efficiently as possible.
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They would agree that many thinking processes intertwine in order to get the message. This definition explains a
number of processes used by an individual in order to gain the message that the author wishes to say. It can be said that reader needs skills and strategies to
read the texts to comprehend the messages. Comprehension then becomes the main purpose of the reading process.
In another view, reading is interpretation and understanding.
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The reader interacts with, and tries to reconstruct, what a writer wishes to
communicate. If the reader’s anticipations and predictions are pretty much in line with what a writer says, and how it is presented, comprehension is likely
to be easy and rapid. If there is a great distance between the backgrounds of the reader and a writer, comprehension is likely to be slow and poor.
Based on the opinions given by the experts, the writer can conclude that reading is a kind of activities to understand a written language. It is not
only how to get the meaning of each words or sentences but also the important one is how the reader can get and conclude the ideas of the writer’s writing. It
requires a high level of effort and concentration, also involves many complex skills that have to come together in order for the reader to be a successful
reader.
2. The Purpose of Reading
A person may read for many purposes, and that purpose helps understand more what is read by people. If she or he is reading for pleasure or
reading for recreation and enjoyment, she or he may read quickly or slowly based on the way she or he likes or feels. However, if she or he is reading for
study or to get the information such news, science or some line, which are part
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Fancroise Grellet, Developing Reading Skills,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, p.3.
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Deborah B. Daiek, and Nancy M. Anter, Critical Reading for College and Beyond, Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004, p. 5.
