Technique of Reading
Reading is one of skills in
English that should be mastered to make our English better. There are many ways
of mastering reading in English or for answering some question. Before
mastering reading skill, we should know the technique, and the process of
reading its self. There are many techniques for mastering reading skill.
Namely: learning, pre-reading, skimming, scanning, critical reading, key word
and etc. Technique is very important to study about reading because by using
technique we can understand the meaning of the writing itself. These are the
technique of reading.
a. Pre-reading
Pre-reading can make you more
interested in reading something to get new information that you haven’t known
yet, and also it’s good for you to make it being our custom and accustomed to
read what we find.
b. Skimming
Skimming is a good technique
in studying reading. The reader just look for the point or the specific
information. A reader doesn’t read every word, sentence, and paragraph. A
reader should look quickly to find the specific information he wishes.
c. Scanning
In this case, a reader tries
to find out the answer to certain what have been determined. Scanning is also
one of skills in effective reading. Scanning refers to reading quickly to find
the idea, name, date, statistic, or a fact in writing. If a reader remembers
the idea well, he/she can find the idea quickly of what he wants to know.
d. Critical reading
In this technique the reader
is not only want to know about the information that contain but also a reader
want to evaluate it. The ability to evaluate is much more determined by the
reader educational background, age, experiences and personality. Every person
commonly can evaluate something if his thinking power or mind power develops
sufficient.
e. Key word
Another technique for reading is key word. When
we are reading something, we should know the key word of what we reading are.
In this technique, a reader should concentrate his attention toward the
information word that he is looking for, and must see the word which contains
the information of what we want or look for.
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