Teaching Reading: The First Foreign Language Acquisition

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People get language from custom, habit, and learning process. The first language is acquired through habit and custom, which is generally called language acquisition. Acquisition itself is the act of getting something, especially knowledge, a skill, etc (Hornby, 2000). L2 is generally learned, few people acquire L2, which is generally called as language acquisition. It is possible if there is opportunity for them to get use the language in the speech community peaking the language. Besides, English has many interrelationships with various aspect of life owned by human being, such as: politics, economics, social, culture, technology, and especially education. In Indonesia, English is considered as the first foreign language and is taught formally …show more content…

2.1.2 Teaching Reading
Teaching, like other professions, requires long and difficult period of academic preparation, legal recognition, and social responsibiliy. Teaching is a partnership between schools, community, and parents to help children succeed in their academic careers. Each time the teachers have exposure to students they have the opportunity to provide building blocks for students to take with them to new studies.

2.1.2.1 Background of Teaching Reading
Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning. Teaching may be defined as showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving isntructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand (Brown, 1994: 7). It can be concluded that teaching is a process of helping and guiding students to learn and develop their …show more content…

First, it is a must for the teacher to be a familiar with the text so that he can provide a brief and focused introduction. The teacher should model the strategies and support learners in using them. It is absolutely essential for the teacher to regularly monitor the learner’s use of the strategies. In this case, the teacher plays his role as a facilitator, without directly evaluates and corrects the students playing their role in group interaction. The next thing is the teacher should use information gained through monitoring as a guide to the further support and practice needed by the

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