Introduction

Hello All.

We are the members of UNP Reading Circle Community (RCC) from English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Padang. 

This community was first established on February 13, 2014 by five volunteers (students) who were majoring in English Education at UNP. They were Yuri Hardianti (Yuri), Cayo Islami (Adek), Anisa Wahyuni (Nisa), Elvarisa Adriani (Ica), and Novia Ertika PS (Via). They were a few of students who took course of  Extensive Reading with Ms Leni Marlina in 2013.

The first idea of establishing Reading Circle Community (RCC) at UNP was offered by the current advisor of RCC, Ms. Leni Marlina (Lina), one of lecturers at English Department UNP.

The motto of RCC English Departmet UNP is “Achieving Better Future by Having Fun Reading”.

The general aim of RCC English Departmet UNP is to help its members in improving their English and developing their critical thinking while studying formally at English Department UNP.

Reading Circle Community (RCC) is a community where its members can improve their English skill by sharing and discussing their opinions about their interpretation of what they read. Furthermore RCC is a fun community since there is no compulsion on what to be read. In this community, the members may read many types of reading sources that are interesting for their community. However, there should be one text for each meeting. The reading materials are such as fictions, non-fictions and academic texts. By reading and discussing the reading texts, the member of RCC can improve their English; develop their critical thinking, and maintain their relationships with others. Moreover, RCC activity will enhance its members hard skills and soft skills in English which is highly required in working field.

The first meeting or activity of RCC UNP was held at Listening Laboratory UNP, on Thursday, Feb 13, 2014. The further activities of RCC is going to be done at FBS campus with schedule which has been agreed by its members. The place and the time of RCC activity will depends on the spare time of its members. At least the members of RCC will discuss on a reading material once a week in campus.

Since RCC was just established recently, the members start their activity by reading and discussing Children’s Literature.  The RCC activity for each meeting will be reported through this blog. The current members of RCC and the participants of each RCC meeting will be reported through this blog.

RCC kindly invites those are interested to join.

For further information please contact one of RCC members on facebook or twitter accounts.
to see the members of RCC, click here.