the good level but in the medium level. The BA students were in the
medium level while the B. Ed students’ English reading abilities were in
the poor level. In addition, their problems with reading English were finding
topics and main ideas. However, these two skills are important because
they are basic skills in reading comprehension. This means that Englishmajor
students’ basic reading skills were not good enough. Therefore,
educators and reading instructors need to look at the curriculum again.
Instead of forcing English-major students to face reading critically, reading
instructors need to help them have enough basic reading skills, reading
literally, before assigning them to read “between the lines” and to read