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The Nature of Reading Comprehension

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2. The Nature of Reading Comprehension

Reading is not only to get information but it needs understanding and comprehension to get some points from the text. In this case, reading and understanding are related to each other. Reading itself contains the activity to understand the text and information in the text. In order to understand or to get points from text, we need comprehension for it. Therefore, reading cannot be separated from comprehension. According to Grellet 1998: 182, reading comprehension is understanding a written text to extract the required information from it as efficiently as possible. While, Kennedy 1981: 192 states that reading comprehension is a thought process through which reader becomes aware of an idea, understands it in terms of their experiential background and interprets it in relation to their own needs and purposes. Kennedy adds that reading comprehension is not a skill or ability that can be developed once and for all at any level of instruction. It is a cumulative process that begins in early childhood and continues as long as an individual reads for information. On the other hand, Smith and Robbinson 1980: 54 state that reading with comprehension is the understanding, evaluating and utilizing of information and idea through an interaction between the reader and the author. From those theories above, it can be concluded that reading comprehension is a process of understanding, evaluating and utilizing of information to get an idea or meaning from a written text , understand it according to experiential background or prior knowledge, and interpret it with the rea der‟s needs and strategies to achieve message or information from a written text by finding word meaning of the text, finding detailed information, identifying referent, identifying main idea, identifying implied information, identifying the generic structure, and identifying the communicative purpose of the text commit to user

3. Levels of Reading Comprehension

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