Reading 36th Class

Universitas Terbuka Korea Selatan 1

Course Introduction Text book : Reading 3, Mardiani & Darminah, Universitas Terbuka 2011 Tutorial module consists of 9 parts but will be cover in 8 classes.

Class 1 : Scanning Class 2 : Skimming, Main and Supporting Ideas (Module 2 &3) Class 3 : Inference Class 4 : Understanding Complicated Sentences 1 Class 5 : Understanding Complicated Sentences 1 Class 6 : Assessing The Text Class 7 : Linguistic Response To The Text Class 8 : Summarizing

2

MODUL 7 : Assessing Text (Critical Reading Strategy)

Distinguishing facts and opinions Identify facts provided in texts Identify signal words that describing facts Identify signal words that describing opinions Differentiate facts from opinions

Finding/Understanding writer’s intention Determine writer’s purpose Text purpose can be carried with various motivation/purpose

Informative/descriptive text providing information Narration text telling, sharing Persuasive text convincing Argumentation text Critizising

3

Facts & Opinions

Fact : Truth can be proven universally Signal words : statistics, names, dates, experimental result Who is the current President of Indonesia? Name of months When Indonesian celebrates their independence day? How many hours we have in a day?

Opinions : Involve feelings and element of sub-jectivity Signal words : could, might, will, may, perhaps, maybe, possibly,

probably SBY’s first son could be Indonesia’s next president. That movie would probably become huge hits in the box office.

4

Understanding Writer’s Intention

Adalah strategi membaca secara kritis Berpikir kritis artinya,

Dapat memberikan alasan Dapat memberikan kesimpulan Dapat memberikan pendapat

Tujuan penulisan (oleh penulis) Memberikan informasi tentang suatu subjek Menjelaskan suatu kejadian Berbagi pengalaman Meyakinkan pembaca tentang suatu ide atau pandangan Meyakinkan pembaca tentang suatu barang atau penemuan Sekedar menghibur

5

Text : Fighting Ovarian Cancer

Writer’s intention Providing information Sharing knowledge or information formatif text Signal words : Fighting, Research data

Writer’s position Positive, Optimistic Signal words : Show significant improvement, Usage of compar-

ative clause higher

Question: Can you list facts and opinions from the arti-cle? 6