Developing Extensive Reading Material For Semester 2 Students Of YOGYAKARTA University Of Technology

This research study was aimed at developing extensive reading material for semester 2 students of Yogyakarta University of Technology. This research was a Research and Development study that included the steps of needs analysis, course grid design, product development, product validation, product revision, try-out, and study of the final product. This research developed ten units of extensive reading material. The extensive reading material was developed according to the needs analysis data.  The need of semester 2 students of Yogyakarta University of Technology is to improve their reading skills. The appropriate extensive reading material are describe the language skills clearly, look nice, give a lot practice, give feedback and let the learners know how to complete the tasks, give examples and tell the learners how to learn best. The needs-related appropriate extensive reading material in terms of their components are: the goal of learning reading is to improve the students' reading skills; the input presents interesting pictures and vocabulary list; the procedure presents interesting and enjoyable activities; the learners' role is as the active reader; the teacher's role is the feedback giver; and the setting is individual work. The needs-related arrangement of the components of appropriate extensive reading material in terms of their organisations are arranged into three stages, namely: introduction, exercises, and evaluatio

Extensive reading in a second language : literature review and pedagogical implications

textThis Report explores the importance of including extensive reading (ER) program in English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To find benefits and implications of L2 extensive reading, the Report reviews comprehensive literature on L2 extensive reading. Research has found that extensive reading enables L2 learners to achieve both cognitive and affective gains. Based on these findings, the report provides some pedagogical implications for an L2 program in ESL/EFL contexts. The suggestions include practical tips such as materials, useful ER activities, and a discussion of teacher roles in an extensive reading program.Foreign Language Educatio

Authentic Materials in Extensive Reading Class at Stain Ponorogo

It is widely believed that English Foreign Language (EFL) learners need to develop their language proficiency by getting so much input. Moreover, students need to be familiarized with the real English us­age where real forms of communication and cultural knowledge are crucially exposed. Teaching through authentic materials will make the learners feel that they are learning a real language which is used by the real native speakers for real communication. incorporating au­thentic materials helps students acquire an effective communicative competence in the language focus. The research intended to describe the implementation of authentic materials in extensive reading class, the problems arise and the students' responses toward the authen­tic materials in extensive reading class. The design of the research was Descriptive Qualitative method and the research subject was the lecturer of Extensive Reading class and 33 students in B class of the fourth semester of STAIN Ponorogo who took Extensive Read­ing subject. The instruments used were in the form of observation sheet, interview guideline and questionnaire. The implementation of authentic materials in extensive reading class covered some procedures into three main phases namely (1) Pre­ Activity, (2) Main­ Activity and (3) Post­Activity. The activities in main activity are as follows: (a) Pre­ Activity; (b) Whilst ­Activity; and (3) The language focus stage. There were problems arose during the implementation in terms of complicated planning, more time allocation and some disinterested students. Finally, the students showed significantly positive attitude toward the implementation of authentic materials in extensive reading class

Using Extensive Reading to Improve First Year Students Learner Autonomy

Extensive Reading (ER) has been a hot topic among the scholars all over the world due to the benefits it brings to studentsrsquo study. It is often argued to improve learner autonomy, vocabulary learning, writing, attitude towards reading and so forth. This paper reviews the literature relevant to the above issues and indicates the challenges of implementing Extensive Reading into the language classrooms

Students' Schemata Activation in Extensive Reading at Stain Ponorogo

This study was aimed at investigating the extent to which the lecturer employed strategy and occupied effective classroom language to assist students' schemata activation on Extensive Reading class at English Department­STAIN Ponorogo. To meet with the objectives, qualita­tive case study formed the methodological basis of this present research involving an extensive reading lecturer as the research subject with one of her respective classes consisted of 32 students of fourth semester. The data were derived from lecturer's utterances (verbal) and body lan­guage (nonverbal). Those data were obtained from the transcripts of the recorded lecturer's utterances during two periods of meeting, and note­taking taken from observations and interviews. The results revealed that the lecturer used to employ questioning technique to activate students' schemata. Various strategies were predominantly occupied in lecturer's questioning behaviors to engage students in question­answer activities, such as probing, redirecting and reinforcement. Generally, those strate­gies were observed not only to provide motivation and focus students' at­tention towards the topic being discussed, but also to give a wide chance of opportunity for them to recall their prior knowledge and ease 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 the requirements to be communicative as some communicative features of talks were utilized properly, such as referential questions, content feed­back, and speech modification to optimize students' participation and performance in the process of reading

The Effect of Extensive Reading and Learning Style on Academic Writing Competency of Semester Five Students of STKIP Hamzanwadi Selong

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of extensive reading and learning style on students' academic writing competency. This study used population sample, in the sense that all students in the population (60 students) were taken as sample. The experimental group and the control one were determined through a random sampling. The experimental study employed a 2 x 2 factorial post test only control group design. The instruments used to collect the data were an academic writing test and learning style questionnaires. The data were analyzed by using Two-Way ANOVA Statistic and Tukey Test. The study showed that there was no significant difference in academic writing competency between students who are assigned to do extensive reading and those who are not. However, extensive reading and learning style were found to be interactively influence students academic writing competency, revealing that there was a significant difference between the writing competency of independent students taught using extensive reading and those who are not. The implication is that the students with independent learning style effectively improve their writing competency through extensive reading activity

Teaching Extensive Reading Program with Character Building Theme: From Zero to Hero

: This paper gives a try to presents the complete action plan in setting up an extensive reading course that is not only for fostering the students\u27 English proficiency but also for building up their character as well. This paper addresses that sets up a good theme before teaching is necessary. Henceforth, this program lies ‘from zero to hero\u27 as the theme. In teaching this program, a problembased approach and lexically-based language teaching are adopting and integrating as an instructional methodology. The explanation of it will be divided into two parts. First part is the review of theory underpinning the implementation of this program, and the second part is the detail of the action plan

THE IMPLICATION ON TEACHING EFL (ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE) READING FUN TO VARIOUS LEVELS OF INDONESIAN STUDENTS

For some students, EFL (English Foreign Language) reading is one of the most uninteresting subjects because it can make them bored easily. Kweldju (1996) found that students were not interested in reading although they thought some texts books were useful for their study. Meanwhile, English is a compulsory subject that must be studied by Indonesian students. If they get bad to comprehend EFL reading, it means that their English is still bad so that they cannot get the information from the reading text. The goal of the teaching EFL reading in Indonesia is to comprehend the reading texts on which Indonesian students must be able to read science-related texts written in English. This paper analyzes some strategies such as metacognitive and extensive reading to make students enjoyable when learning English reading

An Analysis of Reading Performances of Indonesian EFL Learners for Extensive Reading Practice

Learners\u27 reading performances are needed to be studied in order to clarify the appropriate context of studies about learners\u27 extensive reading experiences. This article is based on a preliminary study on “a Case Study on Two Indonesian Learners\u27 Extensive Reading in English Experiences towards Developing Reading Competency”. This article aimed to answer two questions: (1) How is The Indonesian EFL learners\u27 reading performance before learning extensive reading? (2) How is The Indonesian EFL learners\u27 reading TOEFL score for reading section before learning extensive reading? An analysis was conducted for the data on the documents of reading performance and Reading Section of TOEFL score. The result of this study found: (1) The Indonesian EFL learners\u27 reading performance before learning extensive reading is in the range 66-80 (B) in Reading III for all learners (100%) (2) The Indonesian EFL learners\u27 TOEFL score for Reading section before learning extensive reading is in the range 51% - 80 %. These preliminary data were needed in order to indentify the learners\u27 reading performances, therefore, it is expected that the findings are meaningful for the study designed