Concept of Teaching Reading Comprehension
b. The students’ habit of slow reading
Slow readers generally have poor comprehension. Therefore, slow readers are at a disadvantage in many ways. In Indonesian context, students try to read very slowly
as if they want to understand a word of the passage. If they do not understand a word or an expression, they do not look up word by word in dictionary, so that
they read very slowly. c.
The students’ inability to figure out inferences,implications and main ideas In reading an English text, students are concerned with two factors, to decode the
text as what the writer says and to be familiar with content schema, that include culture and background knowledge. The mastery on these factors will provide
students with accurate inferences, determining implications of what have been read, and identifying accurately main ideas of the text. Most students do not
understand the text properly because they could not identify the main idea, make correct inferences, and understand accurate implication.
d. Text selection
In the text selection, teachers are not confident to choose the reading materials. Teachers mostly really upon English textbook available by which modifications
are not required. To use the textbook, the teachers follow the contents and exercises on the book.
e. Exercise to include
Exercises following the reading passage have been questioned as they impose the teachers to implement teaching. Strategies at some artificial ways to format
exercises in the traditional comprehension follow a passage. The writer provides some comprehension question text.
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Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that there are still many of problems which might be faced in teaching reading comprehension including: the
students’ lack of mastery of the basic, the student’s habit of slow reading, the students’s inablity to figures out inferences, implications and main ideas, text
selection, and exercise to include. Teacher who guides students in learning reading comprehension is demanded to choose material wisely for decreasing the problems
that could be faced.