Reading English Expository Texts: Accountability to
the
Yani
Adyawardhani
This
paper argues that reading instruction aims at providing students with the
skills and capabilities of independent reading for a variety of purposes, which
is more relevant to students of colleges and universities performing academic
tasks utilizing English textbooks. In this mode of reading teachers have very
little control of the process; however, a study that looks closely into this
process might throw a light into this shade, at the same time providing some
kind of accountability to the effective reading process at this level. This
paper presents a report of a qualitative study to look at how fifth semester
college-level students read Expository texts that are parts of English
textbooks they use in their study. The findings show strategies that these
students use in reading these expository texts, which reflect ways of effective
reading. Further, it discusses how these strategies of effective reading emerge
into a model that can be learned. It also discusses the value of building an
understanding of reading process from real, current practice. At the same time
it justifies the study as it strives to find spaces in the existing wealth of
study of reading instruction.
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Adyawardhani, Y. (2003,
October). Reading English expository texts: Accountability
to the reading process. Paper presented at the 51st
TEFLIN International Conference,
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