Journal Article Critique 4

Citation:

Meng, Fanshao. (2009). Developing Students’ Reading Ability through Extensive Reading. English Language Teaching, 2(2), 132-137.

This journal article mainly discuss how extensive reading improve students’ reading ability and the participants of the research in this article are college students in China. For myself, I think the condition of college students in China are similar with college students in Indonesia. They don’t really motivate to read an English book because it doesn’t interesting and they only read it because they have to. They need to pass the test that will given based on the book they have to read. However, by extensive reading, they feel comfortable to read in English because books that they read are based on their own interest, they read it because they want to. There is no burden or compulsion.

I personally have already experienced the different between intensive and extensive reading. With extensive reading, I feel motivate to read more and it makes my vocabulary increase. When I become a teacher, someday, I will definitely use this method. I think this method is really effective to improve students’ reading ability. In the end of the silent reading, students have to tell the others about what they have read and write it in a paper or log about the book. So, beside improve reading ability, Extensive reading also improve speaking and writing ability.