CRITICAL READING 9

A CRITICAL READING OF TEACHING WRITING THROUGH READING INTEGRATION

Luu Trong Tuan

Ho Chi Minh City University of Finance-Marketing, Vietnam

Journal of Language Teaching and Research

Published By: Academy Publisher

Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012

Writing is a skill reflected reading comprehension because reading and writing have mutual effect. Writing reinforces comprehension of cognitive information manifested in a text to read (Kucer, 1985). It means that teaching reading should be integrate with reading. The student will be a good writer if they have good reading comprehension.

Some previous studies have deal with this term such as the study conducted by Tuan 2012. He study about teaching writinf through reading integration. The purpose of the study is to investigate the extent to which Steve Peha’s read-like-a-writer approach is beneficial to EFL learners and thereby to attain a better way to teach integrated reading and writing courses.

This study used experimental quantitative design. Thus, test and survey questionnaire are the technique used to collect the data from the sample.  The sample is took from two classes of sixty-three full-time EFL students at Ho Chi Minh City University of Finance-Marketing.

The result showed that problems facing the fourth-year students of Ho Chi Minh City University of Finance-Marketing in writing essays was rather the same implications as the mutual understanding between the teachers and the students which helps the teachers design their lesson plans suitable for the students’ needs.

We can learn from the study above that teachers play an importan role in delivering the student understanding about writing. they should prepared well what actually students’ need. Teacher also need to stimulate the students to be an active people in integrate reading and writing so, it will decrease time consuming in constructing word of the text.