Hi everyone!
Today, I would like to tell you about the further explanation of my previous post. In this post, I would further analyse why the lack of reading culture is happened and how to overcome it in order to learning language by using reading as a method.
First of all, one said best way to learn is through experience hence it'd be difficult to learn if the learners hadn't exposed with at an early age. According to the article, most South-African students born with low rate of reading environment moreover even some of them dropped out from school.
To adapt reading culture, learners should exposed with it at an early age so they will develop the interest to it because once they notice the benefit from it, they will be obsessed and eventually develop reading culture. However, because some learners didn't get the exposure, teachers need to use various strategies to overcome it.
Beside teachers, environment needs to help children fascinated with the importance of reading by develop habit to read, so it would become attitudes and eventually character. It's undeniable that the lack of reading culture is very much affected by the legacy, so like it or not, school have a huge responsibility to develop reading culture.
Fortunately, most of South-African parents aware of education as the only weapon to change the world, so they send their children to school. Beside getting the education, students learn global language and acquire themselves motivation to keep study. Hence school should promote education that full of motivation, this way education act as a bridge to success.
According to Ezc (2006) asserts that the role of school is to be responsive to vast and variety needs of each in the school environment. Schools should provide various reading materials according to students' interest since in order to be success children need proper exposure to improve their foundation skills to acquire another skills. As a country whose mother tongue is not English multilingualism is major challenge. As English suggested to be mastered by everyone.
Reading as a method to learn language is a complex process but it will enables learners to gain knowledge, enjoy literature, and acquire another skills. Reading is important activity with a handful of information. As a teacher should understand the processes of reading. Reading should be done steadily and continuously in order to be absorbed by children.
According to Goodman (1967) reading process convincingly when he states that a) Readers develop sampling strategies to pick up most useful and necessary graphic cues. b) They develop prediction strategies to use when their prediction do not work out and they need to reprocess the graphic, syntactic and semantic cues to get the meaning. It means that needs to acquire their own way to learn in order to understand the materials easily.
Some alternative strategies include skimming technique and cooperative reading. Skimming will help the learners build their own story schema and enhance their reading speed. As for cooperative reading, it will motivate learners to share knowledge as it will be more widely used.
This article believe in cognitive and social constructive development that children will learn best if they interact with other children to develop their own understanding. One of reading activity to approached is directed reading-thinking activity, it will build readers who constantly seek for knowledge, it will also help readers to determine and examine their goals, it will promote higher order thinking skills by justifying thought process and drawing logical conclusion, and eventually will make children constantly blend their own thinking to comprehend information.
To conclude, to use reading as a method to learn language, reading should be a habit first, it should develop at an early age. Environment have huge role in motivate children to read, they should exposed the reading culture as early as possible. Even thought reading is a complex process, it will give a lot of benefit to the children.
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