The Use of Close Reading to Pinpoint Student’ Skills in Reading Comprehension: An Indonesian Case

Siti Sariah, Predari Siswayani, Nanang Kosim, Rahendra Maya

2018

Abstract

There are many researches about reading comprehension over the years. However, the tendency of those researches is to find out the relationship and the effectiveness of a method or technique used to foster students’ reading comprehension with quantitative approach. Moreover, in line with the reading comprehension researches, the student’s meaning-making process is also still rare. Therefore, this case study is attempted to investigate the meaning-making process of students with close reading to pinpoint students’ reading comprehension skill in one of Islamic senior high school and qualitative methodology is employed in this study. An after-school-session is held to earn the data for document analysis with eleven students from tenth grade as the participants. After analysing the data, it indicates that 73% of participants belong to literal level of comprehension and 27% participants are identified to be in inferential level. Furthermore, the study on close reading might be conducted quantatively. In addition, the text complexity used for close reading might also be considered to be studied as a matter of fact that Indonesia’s curriculum does not have measurement for text complexity assigned to certain grade.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sariah S., Siswayani P., Kosim N. and Maya R. (2018). The Use of Close Reading to Pinpoint Student’ Skills in Reading Comprehension: An Indonesian Case.In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 265-272. DOI: 10.5220/0008216702650272

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Siti Sariah and Predari Siswayani and Nanang Kosim and Rahendra Maya},
title={The Use of Close Reading to Pinpoint Student’ Skills in Reading Comprehension: An Indonesian Case},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={265-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008216702650272},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - The Use of Close Reading to Pinpoint Student’ Skills in Reading Comprehension: An Indonesian Case
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Sariah S.
AU - Siswayani P.
AU - Kosim N.
AU - Maya R.
PY - 2018
SP - 265
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0008216702650272