Reading
is another receptive skill besides listening skill. As receptive skill,
comprehension is mainly needed. The understanding and getting information from
the text can be gained by some different ways that indicate the reading types.
Based
on Grellet (2001: 4), the ways of reading are skimming, scanning, extensive
reading, and intensive reading. Meanwhile, Harmer (2002: 210-214) classifies
the ways of reading into shorter classification it is divided into two general
types of ways, the extensive and intensive reading.
Extensive
reading as Harmer writes, to prove successful extensive reading program students
should read material which they can understand. If they are struggling to
understand every word, they can hardly be reading for pleasure and it is the
main goal of this activity. Extensive reading especially where students are
reading material written specially at their level, it has a number of benefits
for the development of students’ language. The students are given tasks of
reading text by allowing them to choose their own reading texts, following
their own likes and interests, they will not able to read the same texts at
once. Therefore, the teacher should encourage them to report back on their
reading in a number of ways.
The
second way is intensive reading. By this type of reading, the teacher has to
prepare the interest topic and tasks. The teacher plays role as the organizer,
the observer, the feedback organizer, and the prompter.
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