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Students will try to understand the context of the whole story while listening to the spoken language. This is similar to what will they face when they are joining some conversation, or maybe when they attend some conference.
- Improve their cooperation
4. EXTENSIVE READING TECHNIQUE
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short, reading is an activity to derive meaning from printed words or symbols and how this ability is used to recognize, understand and interpret words. Therefore, to help overcome these problems, teachers must apply a special technique in learning. In this discussion, you can use extensive reading techniques.
According to several experts, extensive reading is one way to approach by observing students' reading comprehension of several written texts. Because by doing extensive reading students will get more information very clearly and quickly. It can also be interpreted that extensive reading is reading in general and in a broad scope with the aim of getting new information as well as enjoying the reading activity.
There are many benefits of reading extensively with extensive reading, namely that students will become good readers. Research conducted by an expert named Richard Day states that the more we read, the students will be better at processing words and better at speaking. With so much vocabulary that we get from reading every day, the newer information the student will get. As for the opinion of another expert named Elley (1981) which states that if a child is diligent in reading every day, then he will also gain expertise in writing. This is because if we are diligent in reading, we will also get ideas which we can then pour into an article.
It is also highly recommended that if students want to start reading extensively, students must look for readings that match their respective interests and preferences.
Because if they read according to what they like it will make them more diligent and also enthusiastic in reading. Because basically the purpose of reading is to seek pleasure, information and also new understanding.
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B. Procedures of the technique and how to implement in teaching and learning activities The media used for extensive reading are:
- Journals - Articles - Books - Newspapers
- Material on the internet related to wetlands.
Step 1 is all about surveys. Students have to skim through the book and highlight the headings and the title. Reading summaries at the end of chapters and books will also be helpful. Students have to guess what the author is going to say. They can also write it down on notes, on paper, then look it all over to get an overall idea.
Step 2 is about questions. They have to come out with a question after each heading or title point (e.g. “Basic Concepts of Reading” to “What are the Basic Concepts of Reading?”).
Step 3 is about the real activity of the reading itself. Start to answer each question in the previous step. With this way it can help student to have a target and clear direction to their extensive reading.
Step 4 if for Recalling. During this step, students have to mentally visualize and memorize the points of the material that they have read immediately upon completing the reading. This process will give a clue to what extent the students have understood their reading journey.
Step 5 is Review. Students have to look at their questions, answers, notes and book once again to see how well the recalling process went. The mistake that they
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have made will further aid them to memorize it better. While the material that they quickly remember will help them to be confident in their reading skill.
In the procedures and steps used to teach extensive reading, it is better to start by doing short small talk between the teacher and students so that students can feel calm and ready to start the lesson. Without realizing it, small things like this are also very useful because they can make students confident and happy. If students are already feeling happy then it is a good step to start the class with students who are already in a happy mood.
Before giving the reading text, it would be better if the teacher asked the students to talk a little about the material to be discussed. For example, in this lesson, we will discuss about wetlands in Indonesia, so ask students the extent of their understanding and knowledge of wetlands. When explaining the material, the teacher can also use English to stimulate students' minds in using English, or if it is not possible the teacher can use mixed language so that students are not too difficult to understand the material. When the teacher asks questions about students' understanding of wetlands, it would be better if the teacher encouraged and also convinced students that there was no need to be afraid to answer because any answer would be accepted, this way students would feel safe and not afraid to express their opinions.
C. Advantages of the technique
The following are the advantages of this technique:
- Students become better readers: After learning how to be an effective reader to maintain good memory, they will become a better reader. Students will know how
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to read effectively and shifting their focus on the meaning and content rather than on the shape of text only.
- Students learn more vocabulary: After students familiarize themselves with reading, they will more likely to enhance their vocabulary retention that way. The exposure of reading makes them understand not only the meaning but also the context of the vocabulary used.
- Students improve writing: Frequent exposure to reading and the way it is flow in the text will give them a boost in their writing skills. It will produce their own unique way of language acquisition mechanism.
- Students improve overall language competence: Not only affecting positively on reading and writing skill, this technique also increases their overall skill of language competence.
- Students become more motivated to read: When they can enjoy reading and perceive it as not a burdening task, then they can be self-motivated to make their own choice in reading without being ordered too. This also extensively gives positive new habit for them to enjoy the activity and the reading itself.
- Students develop learner autonomy: Students can read anywhere, at any time, and reading extensively helps them become more autonomous learners. This way, even without being ordered to, they will actively seek the reading activity themselves.
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