JET (Journal of English Teaching) Adi Buana
Vol 5 No 02 (2020): Volume 5 Number 02 October 2020

Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Activity as a Means of Increasing Students’ Reading Habits

Dian Islami Prasetyaningrum (Universitas Brawijaya)
Hafida Ruminar (Universitas Brawijaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Oct 2020

Abstract

Positioned at the bottom two for the literacy level globally, Indonesia needs to find a breakthrough to boost people’s reading habits. Reading is a complex process on how readers embracing the written text as a communication media, interpreting the text using the prior knowledge, then finally re-communicate the content as the prove of comprehension. Many students thought that reading was not enjoyable, so the concept of reading for pleasure could help. This present study conducted to show how the Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) approach was helpful to boost the students' habits in reading with pleasure. Many previous studies conducted on several levels of education for instance primary and secondary. So, in this study, the participants were university students who joined English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class. DEAR only needed to be implemented only for 30 minutes regularly, and then the students find out that the approach was helpful to ease their burden in reading. Moreover, the reading for pleasure concept offered in the approach implementation surely makes the students feel the joy of reading that mostly forgotten.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jet

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Journal of English Teaching Adi Buana (JET Adi Buana) is firstly published on April 2016 and published twice a year on April and October. The aim of this journal is to accommodate the professional researchers of English teaching who attend to publish their works. It offers articles of current ...