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A: Yes, of course
Q: like what?
A: sometimes I am difficult to understand the text and can not find the answer. Sometimes I was difficult to understand the new text, I mean I have just heard or
read the topic or the content from this class, however, it is kind of a new experience for me
Q: How do you overcome your difficulty?
A: If I have the problem in vocabulary, I use electronic dictionary, or open the Oxfort or maybe use google translate.
2. Name
: Gracia Candra Respondent 2 Date
: December 8
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, 2011 Time :
09.43 Q: What do you know about Basic Reading I?
A: the course in which we have to analyze the text
Q: Do you know the exercise type used in Basic Reading I?
A: like multiple choices, true-false, matching, fill in the blank, reader’s log, etc.
Q: what reading skills do you know?
A: skimming, ehmm…
Q: Which type do you like most? Why?
A: matching because to answer this type, we need the logic thoughts. The answer is related from one to another. I think it is easier than the multiple choice type
because sometimes multiple choice is more confusing.
Q: So the easiest type?
A: matching
Q: the most difficult type? Why?
A: short-answered questions because it is difficult to get the right answer. When I think I have answered the questions correctly, in fact, my answers are wrong.
Q: is it related to your understanding about the text?
A: yes
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Q: then, what difficulties do you have in this semester?
A: every meeting, we were given a new reading text, so it meant we had a lot of new vocabulary and was difficult to predict the meaning.
Q: is there anything else?
A: ya, I have difficulty to find the main idea of a reading text
Q: do the difficulties bother you much? Why?
A: ya because if we do not understand the text, we will not get the right answer
Q: then how do you overcome your difficulties?
A: open the dictionary, or asking the other friends who know the meaning or answer.
3. Name
: Wilhemina Respondent 3 Date
: December 8
th
, 2011 Time :
09.39 Q: What do you know about Basic Reading I?
A: it is a course which makes the students to read intensively, like finding the main idea, how we analyze a text, what the explicit meaning of a text is, what the
implicit meaning of a text is, etc.
Q: Do you know exercise types used in Basic Reading I?
A: fill in the blank, matching, short-answered question, the fast step to answer the question, the word meaning from a text, and the synonym of a word containing in
the text.
Q: Which do you like most? Why?
A: matching because every correct answer we get two score. In addition, we just need to recheck the answer in the text.
Q: the most difficult type?
A: finding the synonym and the word meaning because the text is very new for us so we may find many strange words. Because of it, we may not know the
synonym words and find very new words.
Q: which type is most improving the reading skill? Why?
