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The Effectiveness of Teaching English by Using Reading Aloud

technique towards EFL Beginners

Even though students are in university level but teacher’s reading aloud technique could be a great benefit for learners who use English as a foreign language and also for the beginners. The students had different study background and potential to learn foreign language in primary to secondary school, so this made students diverse in learning English in university level. The result found that reading aloud boosted the students to have more selfconfidence

to pronounce the different or unfamiliar words and it could build up potential for students to memorize words as researcher observed in class and in test paper on how students explain and answer the questions. For selfdirected learning, after observed in class and test paper, the result showed that students who are fast learners tended to understand context faster than beginners in term of writing, and answer the questions according to the reading comprehension. But slow learners seemed unable to engage the context or caught up with what others performed in class. In addition, learners with only a basic level of proficiency in English have a better understanding of what they are reading in a teacher reading aloud situation than in a silent reading situation. Besides, a systematic approach to reading aloud can yield important academic benefits for children, it gained a new level of emphasis

which was called “the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading”. Not only increase students’ ability in reading but this technique also increases students’ listening comprehension skill (Morrow et al, 2002). The development of students’ abilities in term of reading comprehension is required both reading aloud technique and motivation. Thus, a teacher takes the important role to fulfill students’ success. With this interesting technique, students will be able to catch up the topic, articles, and some difficult vocabulary since students have been engaged in reading aloud technique; furthermore, this teaching provokes students to perceive and understand the content and analyze the topic provided. Of course the technique will be easily applied for all subjects both in bilingual school and university including in all students’level.