THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF PRE-READING ACTIVITIES IN THEIR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA (EED OF UMY)

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Abstract
The use of English literature is commonly used to support teaching and learning
process. For EFL students, they would face the difficulty in understanding the
target language. Pre-reading activity is used to help students in reading activity.
This study was conducted to investigate the students’ perception on the use of prereading activities in teaching and learning English including the types,
implementation, and advantages. This study used qualitative approach as the
design of the study with 4 students of EED of UMY batch 2014 as the
participants. Based on the data collection, the types of pre-reading activities
namely group discussion, pre-teaching vocabulary, brainstorming, predicting, prequestioning, and visual aids with video. In addition, the implementation of prereading activity were making a group and discussing the text together, discussing
vocabulary in the text, providing some questions before reading, showing the
video related to the text. Then, the advantages of pre-reading activity were
students are more prepared for the concept, students comprehend better the
concept of the text, students have the opportunity to share the ideas, students feel
more motivated, students are more prepared for the language use in the text,
students can increase their knowledge, students can learn how to practice and
analyze the reading text, students can increase their vocabulary. Finally, the
findings of this study may be useful in recognizing and applying the pre-reading
activities in teaching and learning English.
Keywords: reading, pre-reading activities, reading comprehension