Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): An Attractive Strategy for Teaching Reading Skill

DOI

10.2991/icigr-17.2018.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading comprehension skill, Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

Abstract

Reading is the most important activity in any language class. Here, reading is not only as a source of information and a pleasurable doings, but also as a means of consolidating and enhancing one's knowledge of the language. In relation to the teaching of reading for EFL learners, one of the teachers' roles is preparing students with the basic reading skill in order to gain information and knowledge from any reading text. For this, an attractive strategy to build a meaningful learning is needed, especially for non English Department students. The purpose of the study is to describe the students' attitude toward the implementation of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in the process of reading comprehension learning. In addition, the study is a survey research with opinionnaire as the instrument. The results showed that students gave positive attitude towards the implementation of CSR. Moreover, CSR influenced the students' interest towards English lesson, especially reading successfully. The study is expected to contribute a solution for problems may rise in the English reading class.

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© 2018, 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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