Appraisal and Newspaper in EFL Critical Reading Class

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

appraisal, critical reading, newspaper, critical thinking

Abstract

This research attempts to present the collaboration of appraisal theory and newspaper, to practice the students to read the text critically and to find out the students’ mastery in critical reading after appraisal theory and newspaper were inplemented in their class. There were 19 students as the subjects of the research. The test was constructed based on Davine’s five categories of critical thinking which are the students had to recognize the writer’s purpose (1 item), note special point of view (2 items), evaluate of the writer’s choice of language (1 item), evaluate the writer’s argument (1 item), and evaluate inferences (1 item). The result shows that in the implementation of teaching critical reading to the fifth semester students of English Department of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya University, several steps were implemented including the preparation, presentation, and evaluation. It was done correctly except in pre activities, the lecturer did not tell the students the objective of the study. Meanhile, the result of the statistic calculation says that the average score the students achieved was 58,15 which are categorized into poor skill. This means that the average score of critical reading class shows the students’ ability to criticize the text is still low

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ribut Surjowati
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TI  - Appraisal and Newspaper in EFL Critical Reading Class
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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