Students’ Strategies in Reading Online Authentic Materials

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210914.028How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reading, Reading Strategies, Authentic Materials

Abstract

Reading online authentic materials for first-year EFL students is not a piece of cake. They need to employ reading strategies they were learning in reading the authentic texts. The present study describes the implementation of reading strategies that are used by EFL freshmen in Reading Comprehension course. The type of this study is descriptive study and the participants were 22 students who were having Reading Comprehension class. The data were collected through interview and questionnaire. The result of this study revealed that the students use three main strategies, which are: 1) Scanning, 2) Previewing and Predicting, and 3) guessing word meaning. The result also revealed that scanning is the most common reading strategy used by the first-year EFL students in reading online authentic materials.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Rahma Dania
AU  - Annisha Dyuli Adha
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - Students’ Strategies in Reading Online Authentic Materials
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 149
EP  - 152
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210914.028
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210914.028
ID  - Dania2021
ER  -