Reading is one of the primary skills that students must learn. In reading comprehension, they should not only read the whole text, but also comprehend what the important point of the text is. However, they will face some difficulties comprehending text during reading. Therefore, Group Investigation (GI) technique is the solution to solve their difficulties. The aim of the research is to investi…
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…
Speakingisoneofthemostimportantskillswhichisusuallyusedto communicatewitheachother.Peoplecannotshareinformationand expressideastopublicwithoutspeaking.However,somestudents haveproblemssuchaslowinterest,boredom,andlessparticipation withintheprocessoflearningEnglishintheclass.Therefore,they need some interesting techniques which can be used to revive classroom activity,and one ofthe techniq…