Universitas Islam Malang Conference, The First International Conference On Teacher Training and Education 2018

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Predicting passage : Possessing Background Knowledge to Produce Best Reading
Maulidatul Azizah, Irma Fatihatul Hidayah

Last modified: 2018-04-23

Abstract


Abstrack: This article attempts to review the strategy of predicting passage in producing best reading by possessing background konwledge in each paragraph or passage among students. Reading is one of important skill in english which is should be mastered by student. But in fact, there are many students who still did not catch what the text that they have read talking about. It is commonly that the students faces difficulties in reading English and possessing backgroun knowledge is one of them. The student can not produce a good result of reading because they did not understand the background knowledge of the text. Then, strategy to solve tha problem is predicting passage.
Predicting passage is one of the best way to possessing background knowledge of  text by asking students to guess what the topic type in a first passage or sentence in general. To rephrase it, the writer will give the explanation of implementation of predicting passage strategy. Then, this article will provide the effectiveness of using predicing passage strategy to increase reading comprehension, so students can easier understanding the text and more interest in reading. Finally , Predicting Passage strategy can use in reading and can be the effective strategy in reading.