Article 18th (The Influence Of Summary Writing On The Development of Reading Skills in A Foreign Language)

Summarize is a task in which students read to write. Reading here, however, is pretty specific. This operation makes summaries very challenging for students as they engage in textual understanding based on the construction of macro text structures. In the context of a foreign language the fact that summarize reflects the processes necessary to construct the meaning of the text makes it a valuable technique in testing readings. It is also found to positively affect memory and learning.

The development of understanding, however, will not automatically produce better summaries because it encompasses involves additional processing operations, selection and subtraction, which may not be so intensive as understanding occurs. Students, as they summarize, analyze the text, identify and select the most important information, investigate the structure of the text, generalize information, condense information and build the core of the paragraph, and consequently the essence of a text. As I do now, but I seem to write this is not a summary. In conclusion, the effectiveness of a summary in developing reading comprehension skills can result from the depth of text processing done by students while summarizing and from the highly challenging cognitive operations that encapsulate requiring students to engage in, actively and with effort, operations that directly reflect the key processes for creating macro text structure and require high-level processing skills.

Annisa Masnasuri Kesai

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