Extensive Reading Class Research Articles

Promoting Autonomous Learning Using Self-Discovery Technique with Self-Prepared Worksheets in Extensive Reading Class

This research is an action research that investigates the implementation of self-discovery autonomous learning using self-discovery technique with self-prepared worksheet in extensive reading class. The study was conducted in the contexts of a classroom teaching and learning situation. Self-discovery learning is believed to be effective in helping the students to improve their reading skills because this technique forces student to be autonomous learner. The study used action research model by Kemmis and Taggart. However, the researcher does not use cyclic treatment in this study, instead its implemented in one big cycle in one semester. As it is needed to be implemented in the whole semester to get the real result. The autonomous learning using self-discovery technique with self-prepared worksheet in extensive reading class was able to improve the students’ achievement in extensive reading, it is indicated in the post test scores compared to the pre-test score. Nevertheless, there are positives and negative effects found during the acting and observing phase. The positive effects are the students become more active in class, the students can explore the text freely as they like, thus, lead to the students’ better communication. Whereas, the class becomes noisy since the students have to discuss in their group and the lecturer had more burdens in finding, selecting, choosing and providing the text for the class activities. Keywords: autonomous learning, self-prepared worksheet, extensive reading.

THE LOW MOTIVATED FACTORS IN EXTENSIVE READING ACHIEVEMENT

The purpose of this study is to explain what are low motivated factors in extensive reading achievement. It is based on the problems that some students had a low motivation in extensive reading, and they had a problem with their motivation. The bad effect of that problems the students are lazy to read in or out of the classroom. To achieve the purpose of study, the writer used case study with the design descriptive case study. The research participants took from the students from the second semester who took the extensive reading class at English Department University of Wiralodra Indramayu. To get the data, the writer used questionnaire, observation and interview. The findings showed that there was an equal percentage 21 % who said that reading ability and attitudes toward reading as the factors made them low motivated in extensive reading. In line the findings, Day and Bamford (1998: 29) revealed that low level reading abilities would normally lower expectations of success and thus lower motivation to read. And then,26 % of students said that sociocultural environment made them low motivate in extensive reading. The last, the highest percentage was 32 % who said that materials made the students low motivated in extensive reading. Regarding the research findings, the lecturer should create an interesting and meaningful materials to increase students motivation and achievement in extensive reading.

The Correlation Between Lecturers’ Teaching Styles and Students’ Reading Habit Towards Reading Comprehension

Students’ reading habit and lecturers’ teaching in a classroom have a role to raise students’ achievement forbeing an important part of successful teaching and learning process. The aims of the research were toobserve 1) the lecturers’ teaching styles in teaching Extensive Reading class, 2) the students’ reading habit,and 3) the correlation between lecturers’ teaching style and students’ reading habit in readingcomprehension. The research employed a correlational research. Data sources were obtained from readinghabit questionnaire distributed to the students, teaching style survey based on Grasha-Riechmann to thelecturers, and TOEFL in reading test section to the students. The research indicated that 1) Lecturer 1 (D1)had moderate category as Expert and Facilitator, but high category for Formal Authority, Personal Model,and Delegator. Lecturer 2 (D2) had high category as Expert, Formal Authority, Personal Model, andDelegator, but moderate category for Facilitator. Lecturer 3 (D3) had high scores for five categories (Expert,Formal Authority, Personal Model, Facilitator, and Delegator), 2) the students’ reading habit category werefair, and 3) the lecturers’ teaching style was inversely correlated to reading comprehension. Reading habithad a proportionate relationship to reading comprehension. R value (0.661) indicated correlation betweenlecturers’ teaching style and students’ reading habit on reading comprehension is strong. Readingcomprehension skill should not be only observed from students’ reading habit, but also lecturers’ teachingstyle, for the success of learning and teaching in classroom.

THE USE OF VIDEO PRESENTATION TO CREATE A GOOD ATMOSPHERE AND DEVELOP STUDENTS’ SENSORY PREFERENCES WITHIN EXTENSIVE READING CLASS

In Extensive Reading class, students are often asked to present what they have read. However, when it comes for them to present the material, oral presentation seems to be a common choice. When some students present their material, the rests wait for their turn. The uneasy atmosphere is created when they are waiting. Challenge is taken as how to create a good atmosphere in class. This challenge triggered the writers to conduct a small research on creating a lively Extensive Reading class by video presentation. The respondents of our research were 35 students who took the subject. Sensory preferences of four dimensions of learning style that are likely associated with L2 learning by Ehrman and Oxford (1990) become the basismethod of this research. In this method, students are asked to read and make summary on the reading materials in the form of video. Based on the questionnairres given, the students admitted that they were more interested to have video presentation than just a common oral presentation because the class is more lively and the students’ sensory preferences are developed.

学習実態に基づく1年間の多読授業が読解情意面と外部試験結果に与えた影響(実践報告・調査報告,中部地区英語教育学会第42回(岐阜)大会)

学習実態に基づく1年間の多読授業が読解情意面と外部試験結果に与えた影響(実践報告・調査報告,中部地区英語教育学会第42回(岐阜)大会)

Motivating repeated readers in an Extensive Reading class: A critical reflection on course design

Studies illustrating the effectiveness of ER in facilitating learners' development in reading fluency, speed and vocabulary have been reported in different contexts. However, studies exploring the extent to which ER accommodates repeated readers are almost absent from the literature. It is in this light that this paper proposes a number of motivating tasks that teachers may use to teach ER as a course. The present paper illustrates the task-based syllabus I developed for repeated readers. I will describe the series of motivating tasks and explain the rationale behind each.

The Effect of Using Online Reading Resources toward Students' Reading Comprehension in Extensive Reading Class

The students at the Second Semester of English Study Program of FKIP-UIR Pekanbaru have problem in reading comprehension. The aim of this research is to find out whether Online Reading Resources has significant effect towards students’ reading comprehension in extensive reading class. The design of the research was experimental research which focused on quantitative approach. The participants of the research were the second semester students of English Study Program of FKIP-UIR Pekanbaru. There are two classes as the samples of this research; experimental group and control group. Each of the group consisted of 31 students. The instruments of this research was reading test. Experimental group was provided with pre-test, treatment, and post-test. Meanwhile control group only given pre-test, and post-test. The finding showed that the mean score in pre- test was 57.25 and post test was 78.07, the improvement was 20.8 for experimental group. Meanwhile for control group in pre-test, the students got the mean score 58.07, and in post-test got 64.67, improvement was 6.61. It could be stated that there is significant effect of online reading resources after getting treatment. In calculation of analysis tt (t table) on the level of significant 5% found 0.361, and to was 7.1. It could be seen a comparison was 7.1>0.361or (to>tt). It means that the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be stated there is a significant effect of students’ reading comprehension in extensive reading class after using online reading resource in teaching and learning reading at the second semester of English Study program FKIP-UIR Pekanbaru.

Engaging the Narrative on Children Literature through the Teaching Extensive Reading

Teaching children literature engages with some of interconnected aspects such as psychology and the literature a well. Such connection represents the emotional and intellectual interaction during the process of teaching and learning children literature. The method for example the approach tries intertwining and supporting during the process of teaching and learning. The life experiences of the reader and the prior knowledge are essential in the teaching of children literature because an intellectual and emotional connection need reconstruct their prior knowledge and experiences to get the new preposition in understanding the children literature texts. This paper examines the teaching children literature in the extensive reading class and its interaction with historical and educational values as well as its literary devices. It also figures aout the process of the readers using their cultural and tradition experiences to engage with the children literature. The terms of engagement is derived from Nikolajeva cognitive criticism, it is the ways of readers how to understand the children literature from inside and outside communication.

A study on extensive reading class through co-teaching with a native English speaker in middle school

A study on extensive reading class through co-teaching with a native English speaker in middle school

“Why my students didn’t read according to their level?”: An instructor’s reflection in an extensive reading class

The present paper is a novice teacher reflection in an Extensive Reading (ER) course. It attempts to explore the extent to which reflecting on critical incident of a reading level contributes to new understanding of Day and Bamford’s ER principles utilized to design the course. This study found that reflection through critical incidents provides a systematic structure to develop practical pedaogigcal knowledge into teaching. By exercising a critical incident reflection on ER, I was able to critically contextualize Day and Bamford’s ER principles into my current teaching context. It concludes by pointing out how a narrative reflection on critical incidents is needed to understand a novice teacher’s experience when practicing a new approach in teaching.

“Why my students didn’t read according to their level?”: An instructor’s reflection in an extensive reading class

The present paper is a novice teacher reflection in an Extensive Reading (ER) course. It attempts to explore the extent to which reflecting on critical incident of a reading level contributes to new understanding of Day and Bamford’s ER principles utilized to design the course. This study found that reflection through critical incidents provides a systematic structure to develop practical pedaogigcal knowledge into teaching. By exercising a critical incident reflection on ER, I was able to critically contextualize Day and Bamford’s ER principles into my current teaching context. It concludes by pointing out how a narrative reflection on critical incidents is needed to understand a novice teacher’s experience when practicing a new approach in teaching.

INCORPORATING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY (DRTA) TECHNIQUE INTO EXTENSIVE READING CLASS

Abstract: This research focused on incorporating Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) technique into Extensive Reading to the Fourth semester of English Department in STKIP PGRI Jombang. This research applied a qualitative research in which observation, interview, and documentation employed as data collection techniques. The findings showed that the implementation of data can be combined by several techniques in order to develop the understanding and make the students enjoy, interest, and enthusiasm during teaching learning process. نم عبارلا لصفل قاطنلا ةعساو ةءارقلا في ةينقت )DRTA( رخآ يركفتلا ةءارقلا جارخإ جمد ىلع ثحبلا اذه زكر ،ةظحلالما يذلا يعونلا ثحبلا في يقيبطتلا ثحبلا اذه .STKIP PGRI Jombang في ةيزيلنجلإا ةغللا مسق ينب عملجا نكيم DRTA ذيفنت نأ جئاتنلا ترهظأو .تانايبلا عجم تاينقت نع ةمدختسلما قئاثولاو ،ةلباقلماوملعتلاو ميلعتلا ةيلمع ءانثأ ساملحاو ،ةدئافلاو ،بلاطلا عتمتلا لعجو مهافتلا ريوطت لجأ نم تاينقت ةدع

Creating Space for Critical Literacy in Extensive Reading Class: A Practitioner’s Account

Creating Space for Critical Literacy in Extensive Reading Class: A Practitioner’s Account

STUDENTS’ SCHEMATA ACTIVATION IN EXTENSIVE READING AT STAIN PONOROGO

This study was aimed at investigating the extent to which the lecturer employedstrategy and occupied effective classroom language to assist students’ schemataactivation on Extensive Reading class at English Department-STAIN Ponorogo. Tomeet with the objectives, qualitative case study formed the methodological basis ofthis present research involving an extensive reading lecturer as the researchsubject with one of her respective classes consisted of 32 students of fourthsemester. The data were derived from lecturer’s utterances (verbal) and bodylanguage (nonverbal). Those data were obtained from the transcripts of therecorded lecturer’s utterances during two periods of meeting, and note-takingtaken from observations and interviews. The results revealed that the lecturer usedto employ questioning technique to activate students’ schemata. Various strategieswere predominantly occupied in lecturer’s questioning behaviors to engagestudents in question-answer activities, such as probing, redirecting andreinforcement. Generally, those strategies were observed not only to providemotivation and focus students’ attention towards the topic being discussed, but alsoto give a wide chance of opportunity for them to recall their prior knowledge andease them to predict the content of reading texts they were going to read. Besides,the language the lecturer used under this investigation was fairly fulfilled therequirements to be communicative as some communicative features of talks wereutilized properly, such as referential questions, content feedback, and speechmodification to optimize students' participation and performance in the process ofreading.

AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN EXTENSIVE READING CLASS AT STAIN PONOROGO

It is widely believed that English Foreign Language (EFL) learners need todevelop their language proficiency by getting so much input. Moreover, studentsneed to be familiarized with the real English usage where real forms ofcommunication and cultural knowledge are crucially exposed. Teaching throughauthentic materials will make the learners feel that they are learning a reallanguage which is used by the real native speakers for real communication.incorporating authentic materials helps students acquire an effectivecommunicative competence in the language focus. The research intended todescribe the implementation of authentic materials in extensive reading class, theproblems arise and the students’ responses toward the authentic materials inextensive reading class. The design of the research was Descriptive Qualitativemethod and the research subject was the lecturer of Extensive Reading class and33 students in B class of the fourth semester of STAIN Ponorogo who tookExtensive Reading subject. The instruments used were in the form of observationsheet, interview guideline and questionnaire. The implementation of authenticmaterials in extensive reading class covered some procedures into three mainphases namely (1) Pre-Activity, (2) Main-Activity and (3) Post-Activity. Theactivities in main activity are as follows: (a) Pre-Activity; (b) Whilst-Activity; and(3) The language focus stage. There were problems arose during theimplementation in terms of complicated planning, more time allocation and somedisinterested students. Finally, the students showed significantly positive attitudetoward the implementation of authentic materials in extensive reading class.

Project IRC : Creating a Reciprocal Reading Environment in an Extensive Reading Class

Project IRC : Creating a Reciprocal Reading Environment in an Extensive Reading Class

Extensive reading in a challenging environment: a comparison of extensive and intensive reading approaches in Saudi Arabia

Many studies have shown that reading can have a beneficial effect on second language learning, but relatively few of these have focused on extensive reading in classroom environments over a period of time. This study compares an extensive reading class against a more traditional class involving intensive reading and vocabulary exercises. The classes were part of a Saudi college presessional course, and this classroom setting posed several problems for the extensive reading approach, including relatively weak students, an environment where pleasure reading is atypical, and the course being of short duration. The result is that the reported extensive reading class was carried out in what could be considered challenging conditions. Nevertheless, gain scores in reading comprehension ability, reading speed, and vocabulary acquisition showed that the extensive reading approach was just as effective as the intensive approach, even though some of the measurement instruments for these variables should have favored the intensive approach. Moreover, the extensive reading participants reported much more positive attitudes toward reading, their class, and their learning than the participants in the intensive reading group. Overall, these results indicate that, for the variables studied, the extensive reading approach was as good as, or better than, the more focused intensive reading approach.

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Using the principles of Exploratory Practice to guide group work in an extensive reading class in China

Exploratory Practice emphasizes integrating research into pedagogy, and attaches great importance to the quality of life in the classroom. It suggests that we work primarily to understand language classroom life, to bring people together, and to develop students’ language competency in a harmonious atmosphere.By putting EP principles into my teaching practice, I explore ways of solving a problem I experienced in teaching English extensive reading to English majors in a Chinese University.

The effectiveness of two comprehensible-input approaches to foreign language instruction at the intermediate level

Fourth semester students of Spanish as a foreign language at the university level in the US participated in two kinds of comprehensible-input based instruction, an extensive reading class that combined assigned and self-selected reading, and a ”Reading-Discussion” class that consisted of assigned reading, debates and discussions. Students in both classes outperformed those in a traditionally taught class on a check-list vocabulary test and on a grammar test. The Reading-Discussion group outperformed the Traditional students on a cloze test (P=0.105), but there was no difference between Traditional and Reading students on the cloze. The results confirm the efficacy of comprehensible-input based pedagogy at the intermediate level.