IMPROVING EFL STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH COHESIVE DEVICES AND WEBBING INSTRUCTIONS
| Main Author: | Gunawan Suryoputro, Gunawan |
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| Format: | Article PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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BEAJ
, 2015
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/18/1/1.1%20Improving%20EFL%20Students%27%20Reading%20Comprehension%20Through%20Cohesive%20Devices%20and%20Webbing%20Instructions.pdf http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/18/ http://www.eu-print.org/orta.php?go=july2015 |
Daftar Isi:
- English for Academic Purposes courses requires EFL students lo be farriliar with the grammatical structures and much of the vocabulary, and they are expected to son-prshsnd English authentic texts. Problem may arise; however, when the students arc not skilled and nave a low level of English proficiency. Tor this reason, the present study aims at investigating how the cohesion, webbing, and cohesion plus webbing could improve the EFL students' reading comprehension. To conduct this research, some students were randomly selected and assigned into four groups: one control and three experiments. After the treatment, the coilectec data ot pre-and post-tests sccres were analyzed by using t-test and f-test. The results strongly suggest that the Indonesian EFL students with a low level are (1) highly sensitiveof cohesion, (2) heavily dependent on the bottom-up reading process, and (3) able to use interactive reading process after they were instructed the cohesion plus webbing. In spite of its limitation, the study offered suggestions to EFL language teachers in implementing the explicit instruction of cohesion and webbing before reading activities