Reading-To-write
The value of reading as a prewriting resource has been demonstrated in many studies
(Smith & Dahl, 1984; Noyce & Christie & 1989; Raimes, 1983; Falk-Ross, 2002).
Those research propose calls our attention to the fact that reading serves as a stimulus,
causing readers to arouse the feeling and generate the ideas in response to the reading
texts. Readers provide personal response and feelings that can be transacted into
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expressive writing. In this way, reading is used to stimulate writing as a source of
motivation. Other researchers have indicated that a large amount of reading can have
positive effect on learners' overall writing ability. Krashen (1984) compared six corelational
studies that found that good writers tend to do more reading outside of class
than poor writers.