English Reading Comprehension Strategies Employed by The Students of First-Year English Education Program

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10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Learning Strategies; Reading Strategies; and Reading for General Purposes

Abstract

This study aimed to obtain deeper understanding and rich information about the reading comprehension strategies employed by the first year English education program students. The participants of this study were first year English education program students in Jambi University who got the highest scores in the course of Reading for General Purposes (RGP) of two classes (A and B). The study involved 6 students as the participants consisting of 3 students from each class. This study used qualitative design with a case study approach. In order to get the required and appropriate participants of the research, the documentary evidence which is the list of RGP scores of the two classes' students was utilized. An interview protocol which consists of 20 questions was used to obtain the data in accordance with the employment of English reading comprehension strategies. Reading strategies (cognitive and meta-cognitive) were evaluated under three headings: pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading. The results of this study indicated that the common English reading comprehension strategies employed by the participants in pre-reading is meta-cognitive strategy:reading the topic or heading of the text, looking at the pictures, graphs, maps, and other signs, and reading some first sentences. In while-reading, cognitive strategy was commonly employed: reading for better understanding, and taking notes or underlining some important information in a text. Further, in post-reading, cognitive strategy was applied: checking or evaluating their comprehension. Suggestions and recommendation are offered to all stakeholders: higher institution students, lecturers, and other related parties.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Eddy Haryanto
AU  - Amirul Mukminin
AU  - Akhmad Habibi
AU  - Urip Sulistiyo
AU  - Misbie Septi Peni
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - English Reading Comprehension Strategies Employed by The Students of First-Year English Education Program
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 89
EP  - 94
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.19
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.19
ID  - Haryanto2016/11
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