CRITICAL READING 14

A CRITICAL READING OF MAKING EXTENSIVE READING EVEN MORE STUDENT CENTERED

George M. Jacobs

James Cook University, Singapore

Willy A. Renandya

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Published by Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics

Vol. 4 No. 2, January 2015, pp. 102-112

Recently, students centered became a popular approach in teaching activity. Student as a subject had a major role in the learning process. The learning process will be success if there any good collaboration between teacher and student. The teachers play as the guider and the students play as the client. Furthermore, transferring information become two sides.

One of the strategies using in students centered approach is extensive reading.  In extensive reading, student free control the action. Students choose what they will read from what is available in their classrooms, in libraries, bookshops, and increasingly, online, while teachers as fellow learners. Many teachers‟ guides to ER recommend that teachers engage in silent reading along with students in order to demonstrate that teachers too read for learning and enjoyment (Day & Bamford, 2002).

In the accordance of that topic, Jacob and Renandya have dealt with the study about Extensive reading. Their article focused on various features of a student centered approach to education and how extensive reading (ER), as it is most often practiced, fits with those features. They also give some recommendations for the teacher. The teacher can implement Extensive reading strategy in learning process,

Based on the explanation above, we as the teacher can also take a part in implementing that strategy. This strategy can implement in senior high school or university level. The strategy is believed can make student get improvement in the skill of reading. As we know that skill of reading can influence the other skill of English such as writing. If it strategy have been implemented successfully so,  the other skill will get goof effect too.