Journal Article Critique - 3

Citation: Attaprechakul, Damrong. (2013). Inference Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension of Challenging Texts, English Language Teaching, Vol. 6/No. 03: 82-92.

     The main purpose of this journal article is to explore the appropriate Strategies to read journal article successfully. However, the background of this research is caused of the most graduated students find some difficulties in reading a set of Texts on education and economic growth. They are Challenging in many ways to read that kinds of text.
     When, that graduate students read a text and they find some unfamiliar word, they look at the dictionary and sometimes they ask to their friend, but sometimes when they are reading an article and find some difficulties and lack of background knowledge they just read some parts of that text which they make sense, so, they could not find the whole information of that article.
     However, the author of this article, Damrong Attaprechakul, explains some factors that may contribute to the graduate students' difficulties, such as their low background knowledge.
     The researcher stated that reading is one of difficult tools to get a new knowledge, so, the students should learn the appropriate strategies to cope with the reading needs. Students may get difficulties difficult to find the whole information of that text. That's why the must choose the suitable strategies and methods to imorove their reading Comprehension of challenging texts.
     After reading this journal article, I imagine if I become a teacher and how to improve my students' reading comprehenshion of challenging texts. First of all, I should find their interest and know more about their reading level. Then, I can decide what kinds of text that I can give to them. I can give them an academic article which related with their interest and appropriate with their reading level. If we give our students a text which makes them interested, I think it can motivate them to read that text. No matter if they got some difficulties, such as unfamiliar word. They will reaf that text till the end, because they've motivated and interested with the topic and genre. By got some unfamiliar words, it can imorove their vocabulary mastery. If they do not know the meaning of that words, they will try to find that meaning.  After that they know the meaning of that words and improve their vocabulary. If they read the text till the end, I think it can give them new knowledge.
     By choosing the appropriate topics and suitable level of a text or journal, it can give some benefits to the students and also it can improve their reading comprehension ability of challenging text.

Journal Article Critique - 2

Citation: Alyousef, Hesham. (2005). Teaching Reading Comprehension to ESL/EFL Learners,The Reading Matrix, Vol. 5/ No. 2: 143-155.

1. The Title

     The title of this journal article is brief, informative, and clear. The title shows the readers the usage of this article. However, this article dealings with various activities in teaching reading comprehension used by the english teacher to ESL / EFL Learners. On the other hand, the title avoids ambigous and vogue.

2. Statement of the Problem

     According to the reasearchers, reading is a complex process, and they proposed six general component skills and knowledge areas, that are:
a. Automatic regocnition skill
b. Vocabulary and structural knowledge
c. Formal discourse structure knowledge
d. Context / world background knowledge
e. Synthesis and evaluation skill
f. Metacognitive knowledge and skill mentoring.

On the second point, the author gives two types of reading, that are: extensive and intensive reading. Also,  The author states the key to reading Comprehension. He said that reading is an activity which will do based on the readers' motivation and characteristics. The teachers should give the appropriate materials to motivate their students  in reading a material.

3. Related to Literature

     In this study provides two related literatures, that are: teaching reading Comprehension activities and the students' background knowledge and motivation. The author states the key point to increase students' ability in reading, the teacher can use some activities. For example, the teacher can use word play and puzzle to expand the students' vocabulary. Also, by doing some reading activities the teacher believes the fluency and the skill in reading of the students will be increased.

4. Conclusion

     According to the article, the ESL / EFL students' reading ability cab be increased by doing some reading activities, such as: puzzle, word play, etc. On the other hand, the teachers should give the appropriate materials while teaching reading comprehension, so, the students can be motivated while reading a text.

Critical reading - 1

Aliponga, Jonathan. (2013). Reading Journal: Its Benefits for Extensive Reading. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 3(12), 73-80.

    This article is discuss about the benefits of reading a journal in Extensive Reading. On the first part of the first part of this article explains about the explanation of  Extensive reading by some experts. Also, the author gives 5 characteristics of the text in Extensive reading which can read by the students. The second part of this article tells about six parts of a journal, that are: 1. The title of the article, 2. Prediction of the content, 3. An intriguing sentence, 4. Critical questions, 5. Opinion about the journal. Still in this part, the author explains the brief explanation of the reading curriculum about the importance of Extensive reading in TOEFL ITP test. The author said that Extensive reading ability could help the students passed the TOEFL test.
    On the next part the author gives the result of the quistionnaire about the benefits of reading a journal. The author suggests his students to make reading a journal as their ability, because it can improve their reading abilities. Based on the result of the quistionnaire the author tells about some benefits that got by his students, that are: reading a journal encourages the students to read, reading journal provided the students' motivation to read, reading a journal enabled the students to think critically, reading journal could help the students prepare for their TOEFL tesr, etc.