Reading strategies used by successful readers of english Department Students of State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan

Nasution, Riandry Fadilah (2018) Reading strategies used by successful readers of english Department Students of State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research are toidentify the reading strategies used by successful readers of English department and to describe the steps they used the strategies, and to identify the dominant strategies that they used. Successful readers here were the students who got mark higher than 90 and could hold it in two reading comprehensions. The problems of this research were the students were lack of vocabularies, they had difficulties to answer questions after reading, and they did not know the strategies to enable them to answer the questions. Interestingly, the researcher still found that there were nine students able to hold their mark higher than 90 in two reading comprehensions. This research is designed by qualitative approach and it is a case study.The informants of the research were nine students of English department who have passed the reading comprehension subjects. To collect the data, researcher used test (multiple choice and essay) for reading comprehension and interview guided to get the reading strategies they used. To analyze the data, researcher did data reduction, data display, and conclusion/verification. The result of the research are there were many reading strategies used by informants toward the test given. The strategies were activating background knowledge, skimming, scanning, guessing, focusing on first sentence, and focusing on last paragraph.The steps that successful readers of English Department students of State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangidimpuan did in using the strategies were mostly same. Based on the findings, the most dominant reading strategy used by successful readers of English department Students of State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan was skimming.

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