Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 6, No 1 (2017): Serie E

USING DETERMINING IMPORTANCE STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Ilham Mufti (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Don Narius (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Feb 2018

Abstract

Students' ability to understand text is very low, because of three factors. The first factor is the lack of students' motivation to read, this problem can cause the decreasing of students' effort to understand text. The lack of practice can cause students not able to comprehend the text and explain what the text is about. The second factor is the lack of students' knowledge of vocabulary and grammar that can cause them to not able to understand the meaning of sentences in the text. The third factor is the methods that teachers using in their teaching "reading comprehension" activity which still can not motivate students to active in reading. This paper offer a strategy that known as "determining importance". This strategy can help students to find the important information among unimportant information in the text. Teacher can begin the lesson activity by activating the students' prior knowledge, then teach them how to use the strategy properly. The result of this strategy can improve students' ability to comprehend the text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...