By: Nova Perwitasari
Students
in English Department must have good ability in the four language skills that
are reading, speaking, writing, and listening. Those four skills are elated to
each other. By reading they can have materials and information to speak, and
then they can write it down by using their own words. Afterwards, they can
share it to others by listening to others’ opinion. The standard competence of
Reading class materials for second year students of English Department is to
comprehend the meaning of short functional text and simple essay in the form of
genre texts in daily context and to access science. Based on the curriculum of
Reading 4 of English Department in STKIP PGRI Blitar, as the continuation of Reading 3, the course in Reading 4 is designed to develop the student’s
reading proficiency to pre-advanced English level. Here, the students will be
exposed to various
descriptive and expository passages from popular scientific source. In addition
to the reading skill dealt with in the previous reading courses, the exercises
will be focused on more advanced aspects of reading and rhetoric, including facts and opinions, inference,
synthesis, and other organizational aspects. Language exercise will include
more difficult words and idioms and more complicated grammatical structures.
The evaluation will be based on student’s performance in mid-term and final
tests.
The purpose of learning is the students can identify both the word meaning and
topic of the genre texts, especially for analytical exposition text.
Unfortunately, there are some students who often get difficulties in
comprehending this analytical exposition text given by their lecturers since
this kind of text requires them to understand what to analyze, what the core of
thesis statement, the argumentations of the writer, understanding of
structure meaning; understanding coherence, cohesion; understanding topic
boundary markers; understanding sentence structure and understanding reference.
They are especially second year students who had the
lowest achievement in reading skills. Their average score was 63. Based on the
questionnaire conducted, they got low score in Reading class since they
did not apply the appropriate reading strategies in comprehending the texts
given by the lecturer. Some of them were not interested in studying reading for
the lecturer only asked them to translate each words all of the time, to read
the texts, and then to answer the questions below those text. It seemed that
the lecturing of reading in previous class could not train the students to read
the texts effectively, so that the researcher as the lecturer of Reading 4
class applied SQ5R to train the students.
The
lecturers must be able to consider the good technique used in learning process
in order to create an active class in which the students not only can read the
texts but also comprehend about the information in it. There are some good
techniques in teaching reading. One of them is Survey, Question, Read, Record,
Recite, Reflect, and Review (SQ5R), that
is by doing survey, question,
read, record, recite, review, and reflect the material. The researcher
chose this reading technique since it is easy and quick to learn so that it can
strengthen the students’ ability in reading without having their brain melted.
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