This book constitues a revised book of the module of TEFL 2 for Open University students published in 2007. This book addresses various materials and techniques for teaching the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It also provides readers with materials and techniques of teaching integrated skilss. Each chapter has two sub-chapters, namely the planning stage of teach…
Reading is a skill that must be possessed by students. It is an activity to obtain knowledge from text. In reading class, the students do not only read all passages of the text with good pronounce, understand the meaning, but also answer the question based on the text. Those cannot improve students’critical thinking without determining the main idea and supporting idea, message, or struct…
Teaching and Researching Reading was first written to help language professionals understand the complex nature of reading. Now in a thoroughly updated and improved second edition, the book expands connections from research on reading to instructional practices and teacher-initiated action research. Offering an updated overview of reading theory, it summarises key ideas and issues in first …
The paper entitled “Students’ Strategies in Comprehending English Scientific Text” discussed the kinds of strategies used by the students in comprehending scientific text. The aim of this research is to find out which reading strategies students used to comprehend the scientific text, such as finding out the main idea, inference, and reference. This research applied the descriptive qu…