THE PRACTICE OF ORGANIZING WEEKLY JOURNAL IN READING ACROSS GENRES CLASSES
Hana Rhemawati
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Abstract
Reading across Genre (RAG) is one of EFL reading classes applying newspaper as the main material for students to comprehend newspaper. One of several assessing tools in RAG class is weekly journal assignment. This study focused on the practice of weekly journal in RAG classes since weekly journal needs several attentions to its purposes that followed by its template, set of the length of time to raise students’ frequencies in reading newspaper, assessing grids, and feedback to enhance students’ reading newspaper outside the class. Semi-structure interviews was used in getting data from four lecturers of RAG classes opened in the second semester of 2013/2014 study period at English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University. The data was analyzed using themes represent the interview questions. This study found that feedback take the most influencing factor in journal succeed. This study highlighted that teachers take important roles to journal running and also the journals’ assessors who are also the mediator of the reading skills to students’ reading proficiencies.
