Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Pragmatic as Learning Material in Identifying Authors Main Idea

Authors
Izhar Izhar, Sholikhin Sholikhin
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Izhar Izhar
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.316How to use a DOI?
Keywords
learning material; main idea; pragmatic
Abstract

Identifying main idea is kinds of cognitive knowledge in reading which is necessary in comprehending a text. However, students still got difficulties in comprehending and translating authors’ thought. In addition, the material provided has not fully helped them to easily identify the principal thoughts of the author. Due to this reason, pragmatic knowledge is needed to overcome students’ difficulties. This study aims at constructing learning material in identifying authors’ main idea in the text. Descriptive qualitative approach was employed. The research finding shows that pragmatic knowledge especially reference can be constructed as learning material which assists students in finding author’s main idea in a text.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.316How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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