b. Reading to skim quickly
Reading to skim i.e. sampling segments of the text for a general understanding is a common part of many reading task and a useful skill it is own right. It involves, in
essence, a combination of strategies for guessing where important information might be in the text, and than using basic reading comprehension skills on those segments
of the text until a general idea is formed.
c. Reading to learn from texts
Reading to learn typically occurs in academic and professional contexts in which a person need to learn a considerable amount of information from a text.
d. Reading to integrate information, write and critiques texts
Reading to integrate information requires additional decisions about the relative importance of complementary, mutually supporting or conflicting information and the
likely restructuring of a rhetorical frame to accommodate information from multiple sources.
e. Reading for general comprehension
The nation of general reading comprehension has been intentionally saved for last in this discussion for two reasons. First, it is the most basic purpose of reading,
underlying and supporting most other purpose for reading. Second, general reading comprehension is actually more complex than commonly assumed.
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Grabe and Stoller, Reading-Comprehension,
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Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that there are some purpose of reading, as follows ; reading is one of the best way to find out the information, as the
way to get information.
6. Concept of Reading Comprehension
According to Snow in Kurniawan, reading comprehension is defined as the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and
involvement with written language.
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According to Brown, reading comprehension is primarily a matter of developing appropriate, effective comprehension strategies.
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It means that reading comprehension is the reader ability or strategy to interaction and
involment with the reading text.
Simanjutak also states that reading comprehension is not just reading with aloud voice but reading is established to understand the meaning of words, sentences, and
paragraph as well as sense relationship among the ideas.
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It means that reading comprehension is the activity to get and understand the whole of reading material.
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Ashadi Kurniawan, Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension On Narrative Text
Through Story Mapping Strategy,
Tanjungpura : The Journal, 2013, p. 4.
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H. Douglas Brown,
Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practice,
San Francisco: Longman, 2003, p. 291.
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http:yoyoii.blogspot.com201106definition-reading- comprehension.html
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