ANALYZING NOUN PHRASE AS AN ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY: Contributing for Understanding English Islamic Text in English Reading Course of STAIN Kudus

Ida Vera Sophya

Abstract


Reading comprehension is one of the objectives of English teaching as general English courses in STAIN Kudus. This is in line with the syllabus determined by all of faculties of STAIN Kudus. It states that English which is focus on reading comprehension is oriented to enable students to comprehend English written text. The researcher finds that the students of STAIN Kudus have difficulties in getting the message of the English reading text. They still think Indonesian patterns when they are understanding English text. Structure is one of fundamental building blocks in understanding the English reading text. A text consists of more than one sentence. The first step in understanding a sentence is to locate subject and predicate. Phrase is a group of words that have function as Subject (S), Predicate (P), and Object (O) in the sentence. Therefore, one of the ways to understand a text is mastering how to analyze phrases.

Keywords


Reading Comprehension; Phrases

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brown, H. Douglas. 2000. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New York: Longman.

Carrel, Patricia l. 1988. Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Farhady, Hossein, Hatch, Evelyn. 1982. Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistic. USA: Newbury House

Publishers, Inc.

Gay, L. R. 1987. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis

and Application. Ohio: Merrill Publishing Company.

Gerot, Linda, and Wignel, Peter. 1995. Making Sense of Functional Grammar. Commeray: Gerd Stabler.

Kustaryo, Sukirah. 1988. Teaching Reading for College Students. Jakarta: Dirjen Dikti Depdikbud.

Lado, Robert. 1976. Language Teaching: A Scientific Approach. New Delhi: Tata Mc. Graw-Hill Publishing, Ltd.

Nuttal, Christine. 1992. Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language. London: Parkway Group.

Syllabus Team. 2008. Buku Silabus: Kurikulum Berbasis Kompetensi Jurusan Tarbiyah. Kudus: STAIN Kudus Press.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/qijis.v2i2.1546

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.