by Ratna Nur'ainiI do agree that extensive reading is considered to be a part of the way to increase the students' vocabulary. After reading the text materials, the students are asked to make discussion. In this case, the students automatically increase their vocabulary to express their opinion to reply their friends' ideas during the discussion. Meaning that, the students will be challenged to read more sources to enhance their knowledge. Otherwise they will have limited information to get involve in discussion. As what Cahyono (1997) said that students limited vocabulary cause problems in expressing main idea and elaborating supporting ideas.When the students reading the text materials given several times, they will learn how grasp the meaning of the vocabularies from the context. It is expected that automatically the students build their vocabulary through a contact or context.
Vocabulary
has essential role in learning a language. Kresen and Terrel claim that
learning vocabulary should be focused to be more comprehensible, thus there
will be more acquisition.
Based
on these facts, I think that teachers may create class for vocabulary learning
such as what I have ever done as follows:
- One in two weeks I give the students in group of 4 a kind of assignment or homework about a reading text.
-
Asked
the students at home or out of class to discuss the text material in group to find some unfamiliar words to be
listed while understanding the content of the text.
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Thank you Bu Endah for the compliment of the eye-catching picture. I chose the picture in Bu Ratna's behalf. I hope Bu Ratna can write and talk more regarding ideas or comments in this post.
DeleteI remember when I was taking Reading class in my university, my lecturer (Bu Arwijati) always asked me and my friends to do extensive reading. It was awesome as we could get a lot of new words and apply them through discussion. By the way, I am little bit confused about who the author is because we can read there are 2 names here :)
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DeleteBu Ratna was having a hard time logged in our blog. She asked me to post the writing on her behalf. If you meet her, you might want to help her to work on it. Thank you.
Oh, I see. Okay Bu :)
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