KINESTI ARINING TYAS

Improving Students’ Reading Interest (Introductory paragraph) Reading is one of the most important aspects that can determine students’ success in their learning. So, fostering students’ reading interest is a very crucial for their language proficiency development. Teachers need a fun, engaging as well as interesting way to make the students more active in reading. However, in reality there are not many Indonesian students who enjoy reading English book as English language is not their main language. In our opinion, to overcome this problem there are several ways which teachers can implement in their reading class. Those ways are the reading material must be easy for the students to understand, a variety of reading material on a wide range of topics must be available for students, and learners read as much as possible.

Iwahori Yurika (2008). Developing reading fluency: A study of extensive reading in EFL. Reading in a Foreign Language, April 2008, Volume 20, No. 1, 1539-0578 In "Developing reading fluency: A study of extensive reading in EFL" researched performed by Yurika Iwahori (2008), claimed that extensive reading (ER) is the best way to help students to increase their language proficiency. The writer also explains that there were previous studies which have been conducted regarding the use of ER as an effective way to assist the students' English development either English as a Foreign Language or English as a Second Language. The aims of this research studies are to find the effectiveness of ER on reading rate of high school students in Japan. This researched study was conducted for 7 weeks. There were 33 students from 2nd year of high school. They are age between 16 - 17 years old, 19 female and 14 male students. The students were provided with graded readers (107 books

Day Richard, Bamford Julian (2002). Top Ten Principles for Teaching Extensive Reading. Reading in a Foreign Language, Volume 14, No. 2, October 2002, 1539-0578 In the feature article “Top Ten Principles for Teaching Extensive Reading,” the authors Richard Day and Julian Bamford explain their opinion on teaching an extensive reading by applying their top ten principles. The purpose of this article is to give some professional development advices to the language teacher, especially in the expertise of extensive reading and the ways how can the teachers develop their teaching skill in that specific area. In addition, the authors also describe insightfully regarding Ray William's (1986) article concerning the principles for teaching foreign language reading, most importantly on William's first two and fifth principles which leave a great impression on many people: “(1) In the absence of interesting texts, very little is possible. (2) The primary activity of a reading lesso

BIOGRAPHY NICKHUN           Nickhun is singer and actor in South Korea. His full named Nickhun Buck Horvejkul known mononymously as Nichkhun is a Thai-American rapper, singer, songwriter, model and actor. He was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California June 24, 1988. He is currently based in South Korea as a member of 2PM a South Korean boy band. Nichkhun was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California   to Thai parents of Chinese descent. His paternal grandmother is from Hainan, China while his paternal grandfather is Thai Chinese. His mother Yenjit Horvejkul was born in Thailand to Hainanese immigrant parents from China. His mother is the chief executive officer of a Thai pharmaceutical company, Union Medical, established in 1976, which acts as an importer and distributor. He has famous named in South Korea, that is “Thai Prince” because he is from Thailand.           Nichkhun has one older brother, Nichan, and two younger sisters, Nichthima (Yanin) and Nachjaree (Chereen). At the a

KINESTI ARINIG TYAS 53.14.0622 UNIVERSITY OF 17 AGUSTUS 1945 Banyuwangi DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION            I was born with the full name Kinesti Arining Tyas in Sleman, Yogyakarta June 17, 1996. And I'm more known by the call Arin or there are also a call me Kinesti or Nesti. I am a child of the 2nd of 3 siblings, I have a brother and a sister, a brother named Ari Irawan. My brother is already working and he worked in Cilacap. My sister named Kartika Dina Latri.   Now she was 9 years old, and she still had elementary education . My father named Mujiyanta just a trader and farmer. My mother named Siti Rohanah just a good housewife and helping my father. I lived at Klatak. I live with my parents. Since childhood, I stayed in Tangerang, because my parents worked in there. But when I am in vocational high school, I moved in Banyuwangi.           At the age of 5 years old I started my education at the level of kindergarten, the named is Tk Mifta