Activity 1: Identification Directions: After learning some features of a book review, you are now about to take the challenge of identifying the theme of the following literature reviews below. Write only the letter from the column presented below.
A. According to a theory by Goodman (1995), readers who are capable to use the English language make use of semantic cues or word meaning using writing and speaking cues by adapting several approaches.
B. Du Boulay (1999, in Khateeb, 2010) assures that weakness in reading ability constitutes one of the biggest problems encountered by students at all educational levels.
C. Readers need to give interpretation, conclusion and other implicit ideas from a text in order to test the learner's reading comprehension competence (Kispal, 2008)
D. This competency refers to a language facility influencing acquisition and getting hold of reading ability and it includes words, understanding of sentence structure or syntax and usage or grammar competence (Gao, 2001).
