Reading Response Journal C

Akhmad Farroby

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“READING RESPONSE JOURNAL C”

I bring up the article entitled “Assessment of Achievement in Foreign Language” for reading response journal C. I think the article is interesting to me, because the content is clear and easy to understand. Now, I will talk about the content of the article. After I see the discussion by Mats Oscarson, the article briefly tells that there is a Comprehensive Swedish Program which examines condition and result that occur in the compulsory school. The program focuses on English as a subject, teacher and student attitudes, and attainment level reached. I think the program is very useful and can help development and achievement of the student. According to discussion of the article, Swedish add the program that provide teachers with information about representative performance levels in core subject for the purpose of achieving reliability and stability in the end-of-term or end-of-course grading of pupils or the students.

It is ‘Testing Program’ that planned by Swedish as a different system. In my mind, I agree with the program, because it is also useful for the student. It can measure their ability when they follow teaching learning activity about study of language. Then, the article gives the information about The 1992 English Study. It contains some cores subjects that consist of English, Mathematics, and Swedish. I argued that only English those become a core subject of the assessment. I think other cores subjects like mathematics and Swedish also included in the assessment.

The purpose is make the student be able to learn other study and it can help them in certain situation. It doesn’t matter that English become the final year of compulsory school. The article shows that Subject specific goals are described in quite general terms. As regards the subject of English as a foreign language, it is specified that the pupil or the student, through their studies, that they can be able to understand spoken English, I think it is good, because it can increase their ability about speaking skill; make themselves understood in spoken English, I think is useful, because it can make their self-confidence when they speak with the foreigners; read and understand passages of various kinds, I think it is good for the student, because it can be able to train ability of pupils think critically about reading skill; and use the written language in simple forms, I think is good, because it can make the pupils write the language correctly and improve their mistake about the grammatical error in writing skill. The article tells that the instruction suggest for the people to want and dare to use the English language, I agree with instruction, because it can make the pupil encourage to use English language in the certain situation; to acquire a knowledge and interest in the everyday life, working life, social conditions, and culture in the English speaking countries, I think it is useful, because the pupil gain a good knowledge that make them to study and use English language in the networking; to realize the importance of English as a means of contact with people in different parts of the world, In my mind, it is good, it can make the pupils know that English is very important, because English language can be the general language in the world.