The use of authentic material in teaching reading descriptive text: review of literature

Fitri Puspita Sari
1)
, Gusti Nur Hafifah
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, Linda Mayasari
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The Use of Authentic Material in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text: Review of Literature 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33603/perspective.v8i2.4365 | 127
used in real contexts, another benefit of using authentic material is encouraging student 
motivation in learning English and also encouraging students to read and understand the text 
in detail. Authentic material that is easily accessed by teachers is sourced from the internet, 
some teachers adopt material from the internet that is varied and easily found. Rao (2019) 
explained some media in authentic materials that can be options for teacher. The paper show 
the effectiveness of teaching using authentic materials media such as short story, radio, book, 
TV and many more.
A similar study was carried out by Baniabdelrahman (2006) which aims to analyse the 
impact of using authentic and non-authentic. In the activities of reading descriptive text some 
teachers have difficulty in finding learning material that is suitable for the topic to be taught 
to students, research conducted by Apsari (2014) aims to find out whether the use of 
authentic materials can improve students' reading comprehension. All three of these studies 
have a similarity that aims to determine the impact of using authentic material in teaching 
reading descriptive text. 
Related to this paper, reviewing some result of experiments, observation and interviewing 
above, can be said that using authentic materials highly suggested specially in reading 
descriptive text. It can be said that teacher can help the leaner understand the meaning of the 
text that being read. The purpose of some of these articles is to measure and prove the 
effectiveness teaching using authentic learning methods. 
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