Indonesian High School Students’ Reading Strategies in Foreign Language Learning

Sugeng Susilo Adi

doi:10.21776/ub.educafl.2020.003.01.4

Abstract

This article aims at finding out the reading strategies used by Indonesian 10 th graders. This research uses survey in collecting data. To achieve the objectives, 104 questionnaires were administered to all participants. The researcher used mean as the measurement to determine the category of usage level for each category of reading strategy. The survey questionnaires are those developed by Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002) named Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS). The reading strategies here are based on the SORS questionnaire which is global reading strategies, problem solving strategies, and support strategies. The research found that students’ usage on reading strategies is high with students’ preference of problem solving strategies. Some suggestions are made by the researchers regarding with the finding and discussion of this study. The suggestions are made for the English teacher which can help them to enhance the student’s learning better, as for the students can make them know about how to apply reading strategies used by them well, and also for the next researcher that have similarities with this study can use this study as the reference or as an introductory research.

Highlights

The reading strategies here are based on the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) questionnaire which is global reading strategies, problem solving strategies, and support strategies
The suggestions are made for the English teacher which can help them to enhance the student’s learning better, as for the students can make them know about how to apply reading strategies used by them well, and for the researcher that have similarities with this study can use this study as the reference or as an introductory research
Support strategies (SUPP) are basically support mechanisms intended to aid the reader in comprehending the text. [6]Kovács (2018:55) explain that an advantage of SORS is that it may help students develop a better awareness of their reading strategies and realize if there are any strategies which they have not used before but could be helpful in improving their reading efficiency

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Introduction

There are so many strategies above, students are expected to increase their reading comprehension skill for English but for all school’s subjects they will do all the way better in school. One of them is questionnaire developed by [5]Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002) named Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) This questionnaire measures three categories of reading strategies, which are global reading strategies (GLOB), problem solving strategy (PROB), support strategies (SUP). Problem solving strategies (PROB) are the actions and procedures readers use while working directly with the text. These are localized, focused techniques used when problems develop in understanding textual information.

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