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.
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