EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2018): EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature and Lingu

THE ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING READING SKILL FOR EFL STUDENTS

Maizarah Maizarah (Islamic University of Indragiri)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Dec 2018

Abstract

Reading is one of the important skill should be taught by EFL students, because through reading students will get many informations about anything. But, the problem is they complicated to understand the text was given by the teacher. The EFL students getting confuse to comprehend what the information of the reading text that actually wants to be delivered by the writer. It was indicated by the lack of vocabularies, less of background knowledge, and the different of English language structure with their first language or their mother tongue. In this case, the EFL students need an appropriate strategy to solve their problem. The teacher must apply some appropriate strategies to teach reading in order to make the reading activities in classroom become interesting in order to EFL students have the way to comprehend the text easily. Therefore, this article explains some alternative stratetegies that can be applied by the teachers to improve the students’ reading skill.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eji

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

English Journal of Indragiri (EJI) is a scientific journal which published by English Study Program FKIP Islamic University of Indragiri Tembilahan Riau. It covers studies in education, literature, and linguistics. Then it is published twice a year in January dan July. Six manuscript articles are ...