UTILIZING NEWS TEXT DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHING READING: A CASE AT ENGLISH COURSE FOR PUBLIC RELATION OF UNIVERSITAS BINA SARANA INFORMATIKA
Journal Title: ELT in Focus - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
This research sought to develop a pattern of reading teaching in the English for Public Relations course. The development of the pattern is reflected in the reading exercise pattern using news text media. This certainly will arouse the curiosity of the participants, compared to the pattern of practice materializing formal texts or even reading texts with outdated themes. This research used qualitative methods and content analysis. There were thirty students who participated in this research. This results revealed that the use of news texts that are more casual in nature certainly can be used as a benchmark for students' reading skills, especially in honing the scanning and skimming skills they have learned before. It is expected that there is an improvement in terms of the students’ reading speed and comprehension.
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Mursyid Kasmir Naserly, Yousef Bani Ahmad
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