Pragmatic as Learning Material in Identifying Authors Main Idea

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.316How to use a DOI?

Keywords

learning material; main idea; pragmatic

Abstract

Identifying main idea is kinds of cognitive knowledge in reading which is necessary in comprehending a text. However, students still got difficulties in comprehending and translating authors’ thought. In addition, the material provided has not fully helped them to easily identify the principal thoughts of the author. Due to this reason, pragmatic knowledge is needed to overcome students’ difficulties. This study aims at constructing learning material in identifying authors’ main idea in the text. Descriptive qualitative approach was employed. The research finding shows that pragmatic knowledge especially reference can be constructed as learning material which assists students in finding author’s main idea in a text.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Izhar Izhar
AU  - Sholikhin Sholikhin
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Pragmatic as Learning Material in Identifying Authors Main Idea
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 542
EP  - 546
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.316
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.316
ID  - Izhar2019/06
ER  -