Reading Fiction to Create Word-Meaning Awareness

Abstract

The case study paid special interest to developing the students’ reading skills with word-meaning awareness and expanding their definition of the words by reading a fiction and to enhancing their ability to use words and the partial synonyms correctly according to the appropriate contexts. The activities started from reading the short story ‘The Landlady’ as a pre-reading and testing the students about how they used the leading words. Then the students studied the leading words’ meanings and looked for their synonyms, sorted them into their meaning categories, identified the meanings using word mapping, and used those synonyms properly in possible sentences. The result showed that students understood the meaning of words broadly and were aware when to use words. By comparing their understanding before and after reading the fiction, they have developed word formation in their reading (almost 26%) and made use of the correct meaning in its proper context.