newspaper, plays, and wide range of other text genres. Intensive reading is usually accompanied by study activities.
While Francoise Grellet divided the kinds of reading into: a. Skimming, it is a process of reading in which happen quickly running on
e‟s eyes over a text to get the gist of it.
b. Scanning, it is a process of reading in which quickly going through a text to find a particular piece of information.
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The writer considers that if people have different purposes in reading, it will as well influence the way they read. For instance, people probably will read
some lessons or materials in the limited amount of time then people just skim the text. On the contrary, when people need to look up a name in the address book or
word in the dictionary, they should know what they are looking for so they scan it and read it word by word.
3. The Purposes of Reading
When people read, they may have some different purposes to obtain after reading the text. For instance, when people want to get information or knowledge,
they read a textbook, a newspaper, a journal, an article. When people read to get pleasure or to get entertained, they may read some kinds of magazine, comic, or
novel. Here are several purposes that may include when people read according to R. R Jordan:
a. To obtain information facts, data, etc. b. To understand ideas or theories, etc.
c. To discover author‟s point of view.
d. To seek evidence for their own point of view and to quote all of which may be needed for writing their essays, etc.
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Francoise Grellet, Developing Reading Skills, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 4.
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R. R. Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 143.
Based on the statement above, the purposes of reading are mostly about to understand the content of the text and also to discover one‟s point of view from
the writer that is written through printed words. In the other hand, Grellet mentioned two purposes in reading:
a. Reading for pleasure. b. Reading for information in order to find out something or in order to do
something with the information someone gets.
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Grellet only viewed that there are two major purposes in reading; for pleasure and for information. When people get bored and want to get pleasure,
they might read some entertaining texts. On the contrary, when people need to get informed about knowledge, they might read encyclopedia books, lesson book, and
so on. Another purposes stated in a book entitled Teaching Reading Skills in A
Foreign Language, people read because they want to get something from the writing: facts, ideas, enjoyment, even feelings of family community from a
letter: whatever the contain is, people want to get message that the writer has expressed.
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Most people read to obtain some points contained in a text or in a writing and they read for a certain purpose. For instance, when people want to
know about the latest news, they read newspaper or articles. Based on the description above, it can be summarized that there are many purposes of reading
such as: first, people read to get information or enhance knowledge so they might read encyclopedia books, articles, journals, bulletins, and so on. Second, people
read to get pleasure and they might read magazines, novels, comics, and so on. When people exactly know what they want to get from a text, they will enjoy
reading it.
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Ibid., p. 4.
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Christine Nutall, Teaching Reading Skills in A Foreign Language, Marion Geddes and Gill Sturtridge ed, Practical Language Teaching, Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1983, p. 3.
4. The Principles of Reading
