Empowering the Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Multicultural Based Reading Task in EFL Setting

Abstract

Learning a language means learning its culture. Culture appears through the interaction and the patterns of behavior, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding in the socialization process. In EFL setting, introducing multicultural understanding can be implemented by giving appropriate reading tasks. This research aims to explain how the Multicultural-Based Reading task is applied in reading, how the students' reading comprehension through the Multicultural-Based Reading task in EFL Setting; and how students perceive the Multicultural-Based Reading task. For collecting the data, the researchers used observation and semi-structured interviews. The research design is an explanatory case study. The research finding is that the students have improved reading comprehension and understanding of multicultural.