PREVIEWING AND PREDICTING ON STUDENTS‟ READING ASSIGNMENT (A CASE STUDY IN THE SECOND SEMESTER)

Abstract

Previewing and Predicting are strategies can be used before and during reading a
text. A quick preview of the key elements of a text can help to predict what it might
be about. This will help to prepare the information as reading. This paper aims to
give insight on students‘ reading technique in previewing and predicting in the
second semester of English Department. Grellet (1996) defines that previewing is
a very quick reading technique to find out some information about a text. This
technique involves using the title of a text, the table of contents, the index, the appendix, the preface of the author of publisher, headings or subtitles of chapters and paragraphs, information on the back cover, and acknowledgement. Moreover, Duffy (2009:103) explains that students must look for clues to the topic, think about what they already know about the topic, and predict what they think will happen on the basis of their prior knowledge. The study was conducted in the second semester in order to see how the students did reading assignment using previewing and predicting technique.

Keywords: previewing, predicting, reading strategies, students‘ reading assignment.