Reading comprehension textbook

This Reading Comprehension textbook is designed to facilitate the English language Education program students and lecturers of Universitas Brawijaya to comprehend expository texts that is enlightening and feasible. By including listing, sequence time order, comparison and contrast, cause effect, and problem and solution texts, we aim to prepare the students for further understanding each text social function, generic structure, and linguistic features with enrichment about intercultural and inclusive awareness and ICT-based as well as blended learning, using voicethread application. At the same time, we strive for a clear, direct presentation of the materials so that students at differing levels, and with differing goals for taking the course can come to understand on what to do and accomplish the structure assignment well in the class. This textbook facilitate the implementation of cooperative learning through various teaching methods, like Jigsaw, SQ3R, DRTA, Think Pair Share, or KWL to promote students' citical thinking by encouraging application of higher order of thinking skills. This reading comprehension textbook has some features to help the students to achieve the learning goals of reading comprehension course. Each chapter presents definition of the reading resource, steps in reviewing provide social function and generic structure of reading reports each reading resources genre, example of reading resources familiarize the students with various reading resources genres, example of reading report provides examples the reviews (reading reports), and exercise allow the students to practice to make reading reports. We hope that this reading comprehension textbook will be beneficial to the students and lecturers in facilitating the reading comprehension course instruction.