Bahasa Inggris 1 Disusun oleh Pikir Wisnu Wijayanto

Bahasa Inggris 1 Disusun oleh: Pikir Wisnu Wijayanto, M. Hum Fihrin Zuhrufillah, M. Pd Yuningsih, S. S Prodi D 3 Manajemen Informatika Fakultas Ilmu Terapan Universitas Telkom

English 1 – Subject Code Credit Semester : KU 1012 : 2 credits : 1 st Short Description : English 1 subject gives skills and understanding to the students about strategy and sentence structure in order to help their reading skill in English text, especially for the functional text types in descriptive, procedure, and recount. Standard Competency: The students are able to implement the strategy of understanding the reading skills in English text

• Basic Competency : The students are able to know theory of strategy understanding the reading skills in English text • Topic of : Reading Strategies • Sub topic : Introduction to the course: Reading Comprehension and how to handle it • Meeting : 1 st

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Factors Making Students Demonstrate Poor Comprehension – They fail to understand key words understand the key sentences understand how sentences relate to one another understand how the information fits together in a meaningful way (organization) maintain interest or concentration

What is Reading Comprehension? Reading comprehension is defined as “intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through interactions between text and reader” (Harris &Hodges, 1995)

Why Need Reading Strategies? “Once thought of as the natural result of decoding plus oral language, comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process involving knowledge, experience, thinking and teaching. ” (Fielding and Pearson, 1994)

Previewing Predicting Synthesizing Summarizing Reading strategies Skimming Scanning Determining Inferring Connecting Questioning

Reading Comprehension Strategies Overview Students with special needs often experience considerable difficulty in comprehending what is read aloud or silently. Educators use many different strategies to improve a student's understanding of text.

Skills that are important for comprehension Understand the words Find facts and details Find main ideas Figure out the sequence Find cause-effect Make inferences

Skills that are important for comprehension –cont… Generalize identify tone/mood Identify "theme" Identify characterization Distinguish fact from fiction Find bias or propaganda

To help special needs students, a long list can be broken into two parts. The following example is a test requiring the matching of words with their definitions. 1. Benefit 2. Patriot Match each word in LIST #1 with a 3. Complete definition. There are extra definitions !!! Be 4. Project careful. 5. Reconsider LIST #1. 6. Recommend 7. Dismay a. to think about something a second time b. to stand forth, to stick out from c. one who loves his country d. to give suggestions, to support e. to initiate something, to start f. to speak, to make a sound g. to cause fear or worry for someone h. to finish, to leave nothing undone i. to bring help to, to improve a situation

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