e. To know what is happening or has happened, such as newspaper, magazine.
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f. To get pleasure. Marrianne Celce-Murcia also stated that there are some specific
reading purpose for he students in academics setting, there are: 1. To search for information
2. To learn new information 3. To synthesize and evaluate the information
4. For general comprehension
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Based on the description, the writer considers that they are two general reading purposes. First, people read books, newspapers, encyclopedia,
etc to get information. Second, people read such as novels, comics, etc to get pleasure, it may be caused by the material is interesting.
3. Reading Skills
According to Jeremy Harmer, there are three reading skills that students have to be acquired: first, students should be able to scan the text that
is fast reading to get particular information, for example, searching a single name in a telephone number, addresses, etc. Second, students have to be able
to skim the text, that is fast reading to get the key of the text or main idea of what the text is about, such as looking at the report text to know what the topic
is about and what its conclusions are. And the last, reading for detailed comprehension, it is reading to get the detailed information, whether this skill
have the same function for looking the detailed information, but students should see as something different from the other skill.
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Jo McDonough and Christopher Shaw, Materials and Methods in ELT…p. 102-103
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Marrianne Cecle-Murcia, Teaching English as a ….., p. 187
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Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach English, new ed, Pearson:Longman, 2007, p. 100-101
Peter Mather and Mc Carthy divided reading skill into two skills, there are scanning and skimming, “scanning is a process of quickly searching
reading material in order to locate specific bits of information,” whether skimming is used to identify the main idea of the text.
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Robert Karlin stated that teacher can use two basic steps in teaching scanning, there are:
1. Select some questions on which the class is working and write them on the chalkboard.
2. Present a passage that containing the specifics question and answer.
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When we scan the text, we may not have to start from the beginning of the text, we may jump it to find the information we need. And
when we are skimming, we may read the first and the last sentences of each paragraph to find the main idea of the text, because some of text may put it in
the first sentence or put it in the last sentence. The writer consider that people read for different purposes and it
will influence the way they read, because they use different reading skill for different purposes. For example, when they read a page in a telephone number
to find a single name, they do scanning. People use skimming, when they read and want to get the main idea of the text or to find what the text about.
4. Reading Process
