Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: The Practice of Organizing Weekly Journal in Reading Across Genres Classes

 

THE PRACTICE OF ORGANIZING WEEKLY JOURNAL IN READING ACROSS
GENRES CLASSES
Hana Rhemawati
112013703
Abstract
Reading across Genre (RAG) is one of EFL reading classes applying
newspaper as the main material for students to comprehend newspaper. One
of several assessing tools in RAG class is weekly journal assignment. This
study focused on the practice of weekly journal in RAG classes since
weekly journal needs several attentions to its purposes that followed by its
template, set of the length of time to raise students’ frequencies in reading
newspaper, assessing grids, and feedback to enhance students’ reading
newspaper outside the class. Semi-structure interviews was used in getting
data from four lecturers of RAG classes opened in the second semester of
2013/2014 study period at English Department of Satya Wacana Christian
University. The data was analyzed using themes represent the interview
questions. This study found that feedback take the most influencing factor
in journal succeed. This study highlighted that teachers take important roles
to journal running and also the journals’ assessors who are also the

mediator of the reading skills to students’ reading proficiencies.
Key words: Practice, Organizing, Weekly journal, Reading across Genres.