64th Article "Writing strategis for Fostering Reading Comprehension"

Ayu Rini Tri Utari
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Review of the 64th article


"Writing strategis for Fostering Reading Comprehension"


This article propose to research the possibility of stimulating the use of reader's metacognitive strategies in reading by specifically designed writing instruction. After selecting four reading strategies which improve comprehension, special writing instructions were elaborated. They have reformulated two expository texts from textbooks used in the 4th and 7th grade of elementary education in concordance to the writing tactics, and tested student's comprehension. The results shows that reading comprehension improved significantly for the reformulated texts.