Strategic Reading Process of
Expository Texts:
An Implication
to the Teaching of Reading
Yani Adyawardhani
As
one of major foreign languages in Indonesia, English is learnt in all
levels of educational institution, with the emphasis on reading skill learning.
In universities and colleges this skill becomes instrumental since the academic
success largely depends on the full mastery of this skill. However, the
practice of reading instruction in these institutions in most cases does not
support the achievement of this skill, ineffective readers are still common,
students are still unable to make academic gains from their reading. A case
study observing how above-average fifth-semester college students went about
their reading process of expository texts probably can offer some solutions
both to the students in terms of the possibility of training the effective reading
strategies that the students in this study demonstrated, and to the teachers in
terms of the implications from the findings on classroom techniques, which
assist students in the utilization of effective reading strategies and
developing their knowledge from the readings.
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Adyawardhani, Y. (2003, October). Strategic reading
process of expository texts: An implication to the teaching of reading.
Paper presented at the 51st TEFLIN International Conference, Bandung, Indonesia.
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