An Investigation Of Students’ Experiences Of Critical Reading Course In English Language Education Department

Abstract

This study aims to determine the views of English Language Education students towards critical reading courses, including the most difficult part in critical reading courses, and how they overcome the problem. The data were collected by interviewing two participants. This study uses qualitative as the research method while the analysis used was thematic analysis. The results of this study indicate that both respondents said that the most difficult thing in the critical reading course was understanding the author's intention. Both participants used several strategies to overcome problems in critical reading such as; previewing, questioning to understand and remembering, evaluating an argument, outlining and summarizing, contextualizing, comparing and contrasting related reading. The results of this study suggest that the next research should find out about critical reading strategies used by lecturers to teach students, and observe the lecturers on how they attract students' attention to critical reading