a joyful reading. This is enhanced if students have a chance to choose what they are willing to read.
b. Intensive reading
It refers to the detailed focus on the construction of reading texts that takes place usually but not always in classrooms. Teachers may ask the students to
look at extracts from magazines, poems, Internet websites, novels, 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
one‘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 purpose 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 Purpose 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
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novel. Here are several purposes that may include when people read according to William Grabe and Fredricka L. Stoller:
1. Reading to search for simple information
Reading to search for simple information is a common reading ability, it is used so often in reading tasks that it is probably best seen as type of reading
ability. In reading to search, we typically scan the text for a specific piece of information or a specific word. Skimming is also including in this type of aim.
It is a common part of many reading tasks and a useful skill. A combination of strategies for guessing where important information might be in the text, and
then using basic reading comprehension skill on those segments of a text until a general idea is formed is involved in this skill.
2. Reading to learn from texts
It usually occurs in academic and professional contexts when people need to learn a considerable amount of information from a text. This purpose
usually carried out a reading rate somewhat slower than general reading comprehension.
3. Reading to integrate information, write and critique texts
This purpose requires additional decision 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. These skills definitely require critical evaluation of the information
being read so that the reader determines what information to integrate and how to integrate it for the reader‘s goal.
4. Reading for general comprehension
General reading comprehension is the most basic purpose for reading, underlying, and supporting most other purposes for reading. It is actually more
complex than commonly assumed. The term general does not mean ‗simple‘ or ‗easy.‘ It requires very rapid and automatic processing of words, strong skills in
