A Small-Scale Study of Reading Strategies Used by the Students in English Language Education Department Islamic University of Indonesia Batch 2015
Abstract
The major aim of this study is to map and describe the reading strategies
used by the student in English Language Education Department Islamic
University of Indonesia. The participants were 71 students from English
Language Education Department Islamic University of Indonesia batch 2015. The
Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) by Sheorey and Mokhtari (2002) was used
as the instrument to collect data. The instrument contained 30 items including 13
global reading strategies, 8 problem solving strategies and 9 support reading
strategies. The findings indicated that the participants used problem solving
strategies more ( ̅=3,68) followed by support reading strategies ( ̅=3,68) and the
last global reading strategies ( ̅= 3 ,38), which means the use of problem solving
strategies and support reading strateagies are high and the use of global reading
strategies is still on medium level. The result of this present study will help the
students to improve their reading ability by utilize reading strategies in an
appropriate and effective way.