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Reading
a. Definition
There are some definitions of reading according to expert:
Harmer (1991:190) stated that reading is an exercise dominated by the eyes and the
brain. The eyes receive messages and the brain then has work out the significance of
these messages. In line with this, Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of current
English writesstated that Reading is the way in which something is interpreted or
understood.
Meanwhile Whorter (1993: XIV) states that reading is approached as a thinking
process- a process in which students interacts with textual material and sort, evaluates,
and reads to the organizations and content of the material.
Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the purpose of
deriving
meaning
(reading
comprehension)
and/or
constructing
meaning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading (process)
b. Kinds of Reading
According to Brown (2001 :3 12) that there are two kinds of reading they are:
l. Oral and silent reading
Occasionally, you will have reason to ask a student to read orally. At the
beginning and intermediate levels, oral reading can:
a. Serve as an evaluative check on bottom-up processing skills,
b. Double as a pronunciation check, and
c. Serve to add some extra student participation if you want to high light a certain
short segment of a reading passage.
For advanced levels, usually only advantage can be gained by reading orally. As
a rule of thumb, you want to use oral reading to serve these three purposes because the
disadvantages of too much oral reading can easily come into play:
a.
b.
c.
Harmer, Jeremy.1991. The Practice of English Language Teaching. New Edition London:
Longman.
Whorter , Mc T.kathlsen .1993. Guide to College Reading .Third Edition. New York:
Harpercollin College Publishers.
Brown, H.Douglas. 1980. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. London: Prentice
Hall International Ltd.
Ruddel, R. P. 2005. Teaching Content Reading and Writing. USA: Wiley Jossey-Bass Education.