English Reading Strategies

  On Monday 23rd January 2017. I read "An Excursion to the Botanic Garden". We analyzed what's orientation, events and reorientation. Then we chose the correct answer and answered the questions. After that I read a news reports about five Vietnamese nationals were arrested for stealing cash.      I think this news is very important, now ASEAN is opened already. The member of ASEAN can come to our country easily for work or travel.      Then we read “Investigation report”.  It was about the couple was stopped by the policeman because they were exceeding the speed limit on the Dumbarton highway in a truck but finally, they escaped. We didn't have enough time to do this exercise.  I think to answered questions very quickly if I highlighted an orientation that are what, who, when, where. Teacher gave a new sheet for us.  The basic purpose of narrative is to entertain, to gain and hold a readers’ interest. However narratives can also ...

   On Monday 16th January 2017. We learned about “What is recount?” I don’t know but teacher explained that about this recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative.   Recount is told someone about something or events or experiences in the past. The authors will use past simple tense in write sentence because it is event or experience in which past, so it requires a sentence that is past. Generic Structure of Recount 1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place, and time 2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past 3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story Source: https://thinkquantum.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/recount-text/ Language Feature of Recount • Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc • Using chronol...

Week 1 Course introduction and Recount       On Monday 9th January, It’s the first class. She checked the member in the class and talked about ours holiday. Then she explained about this course. I studied about “A Discourse Approach in Reading” that we were instructed by Assistant Professor Dr. Usa Noytim. She told the students to talk with a friend about activities and gave the worksheet to the students. We matched the following words with the correct genres of text.      Then she told me find meaning of vocabulary. This course is benefit and important for me and I felt happy. The activity that I completed the sentences was difficult for me because I made a lot of mistakes. I solved this problem by discussing it with my friend.