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.