Exploring the Reading Strategies Used by Male and Female Students

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.055How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading, reading strategy, male and female

Abstract

Reading strategy had been considered as the obligatory to the EFL learners. Reading strategy is a learning technique to enable the students to comprehend the text well and make them become a high proficiency level of readers. This study aims to find out what reading strategy used by male and female EFL learners. This study used document analysis as a research design to collect the data. It also used to strengthen the procedure to find out the usage of reading strategy. The results showed the significant differences of the strategy used between male and female students. Male students are greater strategy use than Female on memory, cognitive, and compensatory strategy, while the female students are reported as high strategy used on social-effective strategy and metacognitive strategy. The findings suggest the teacher to consider the way of teaching reading in the class due to the finding research which is the use of reading strategy by male and female students, and for the students, they can build the process of their comprehension using the strategy which are appropriate to their reading needs.

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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  - Yulia Efnawati
AU  - Mukhaiyar
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - Exploring the Reading Strategies Used by Male and Female Students
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 309
EP  - 312
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.055
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.055
ID  - Efnawati2021
ER  -