The Most Effective Method of Teaching Reading
Keywords:
method, synthetic phonics methods, teaching reading, automaticity, decoding and lexical knowledge, memorizationAbstract
Students usually get difficulties in learning English subject. Especially for reading section. Teaching reading is not as simple as people think. They should have any more practice and should enlarge their knowledge to deliver reading materials. Researchers found that the English teachers used interesting methods that students can learn about reading text in a good condition. Based on the explanation above, the purpose of this article is to know what method used in teaching reading applied by English teachers, and how the method is used in teaching reading.
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