TEACHING READING

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READING


Reading is one of language skills that for students still difficult to master. It can be seen from students’ achievement. Their scores in comprehending reading text are still low if it compares to others skills such as speaking and writing. Reading is an important language skill because without it one cannot obtain the diversity of information acquired through reading text books, novels, newspapers and magazines. Students either can obtain a wide range of information and knowledge or improve their English by comprehending some English texts.

Reading is about understanding written texts. It is a complex activity that involves both perception and thought. Reading consists of two related processes such as word recognition and comprehension. Word recognition refers to the process of perceiving how written symbols correspond to one’s spoken language. Comprehension is the process of making sense of words, sentences and connected text. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text (Walberg, 2003:6).

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