Bottom-up or Top-down Reading Strategies: Reading Strategies Used by EFL Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211021.005How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bottom-up, Reading, Reading strategies, Top-down

Abstract

To strengthen the understanding of reading, a reader needs to apply a certain strategy. Although previous research on reading strategies has been carried out, little research has been devoted to investigating reading strategies involving EFL learners. The main objective of this study was to investigate the students’ reading strategies of the English Language Education Study Program of FKIP ULM. It applied a descriptive quantitative approach involving 60 students. The data was collected by using a questionnaire and interview guidelines. The findings showed that students employed bottom-up and top-down strategies, such as reading the title to determine the text’s main idea, reading the first paragraph, concentrating on the first and last sentences, reading the passage quickly, reading the difficult part aloud, focusing on the first sentence, guessing the meaning, and taking notes. These findings suggest that more exercises are needed to develop reading strategies to help students achieve the reading target more effectively.

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© 2021, 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  - A. B. Bintang Nadea
AU  - Jumariati
AU  - Nasrullah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/23
TI  - Bottom-up or Top-down Reading Strategies: Reading Strategies Used by EFL Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language, Literature, and Arts (ICELLA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 30
EP  - 36
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211021.005
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211021.005
ID  - BintangNadea2021
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