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3. Micro and Macro skill for Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension involves some skill that can indicate the students’ competence in having good reading skill. Brown 2001: 188 states that there are
Micro and Macro skill for Reading comprehension:
a. Micro skill for Reading comprehension
1 Discriminating among the distinctive graphemes and orthographic patterns of English.
2 Retaining chunks of language of different lengths in short-term memory. 3 Processing writing at efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.
4 Recognizing a core of words, and interpret word order patterns and their significance.
5 Recognizing grammatical word classes noun, verb, etc, system e.g., tense, agreement: pluralization: atterns, rules, and elliptical forms.
6 Recognizing that a particular meaning may be expressed in different grammatical forms.
b. Macro skill for Reading comprehension
1 Recognizing cohesive devices in written discourse and their role in signaling the relationship between and among clauses.
2 Recognizing the rhetorical forms of written discourse and their significance for interpretation.
3 Recognizing the communicative functions of written texts, according to form and purpose.
4 Inferring context that is not explicit by using background knowledge.
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deduce causes and effects, detect such relations as main idea supporting idea,
new information,
given information,
generalization, and
exemplification. 6 Distinguishing between literal and implied meanings.
7 Detecting culturally specific references and interpret them in a context of the appropriate cultural schemata.
8 Developing and use a battery of reading strategies such as scanning and skimming, detecting discourse markers, guessing the meaning of words
from context, and activating schemata for interpretation of texts. Based on the above theories, it can be concluded that reading is the ability
and mental process to recognize visual form, interpret meaning, identify explicit information, main idea and the topic, and make prediction of the text. The
following are the indicators of reading comprehension: 1 identifying main idea; 2 identifying explicit information 3 identifying implicit information 4
identifying word reference 5 identifying lexical meaning synonym, antonym 6 identifying the purpose of the text.
4. Principles for Teaching Reading
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