Monday, November 27, 2017

INDONESIAN STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH DIPHTONGS

 

SCANNING FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION

What is scanning?

·         Scanning is a focused and rapid way of reading something to locate specific information
·         Like reading a phone list to find your friend’s phone number or scanning a menu to find the price of drinks
·         This is not the same as reading quickly to find the main idea (skimming)
Purpose:
·         To help students to read text quickly and accurately in order to find answers to specific questions
·         To help students find specific information in lists, manuals, advertisement, on a website, reading passages
Procedures:
Before scanning:
1.      Know your specific question and understand it.What are you scanning to find?Is there a KEY word you are looking for?
2.      Preview the text to see how information is arranged.  Where do you think the information you are looking for might be?
3.      Create a mental image of the fact, word or phrase you are looking for.Is it a number?  Then scan for a number.  Is it a name? Then scan for a name.
4.      Think of synonyms that might be used instead
5.      Look for clues the author might give you
6.      You could combine this with a herringbone graphic organizer or a list of items to scan for.
How to scan
1.      Move your eyes in a scanning pattern
2.      Use your finger to scan
3.      Don’t stop to read until your eyes see one of the key words you are looking for
4.      Look for ways the writer organized the reading—headings, numbers, signal words, words in bold or italics
5.      Use your finger to guide you down the page from line to line looking for your key words
Palomar College.  (n.d.). Power reading online.  Retrieved Jan. 20, 2102 from:  http://www.palomar.edu/reading/r110hybrid/Module%204/mod4.1scanning.htm
Beare, K.  (2012).  Reading comprehension skills—Scanning.  Retrieved from:  http://esl.about.com/od/readinglessonplan1/a/Reading-Comprehension-Skills-Scanning.htm
                 Mack, D. &Ojalvo, H.E.  (2009).  Skimming and scanning:  Using the Times to   develop reading              skills.  Retrieved from:  http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/skimming-and-scanning-using-the-times-to-develop-reading-skills/