Yulita Estin Prihandini, 2014 STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON READING STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION
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Tierney, 1982; Stevens, 1980. Students who possess metacognitive knowledge monitor their comprehension and strategies for learning. They recognize when problems in understanding
occur, identify what is wrong and why the problem is occurring, identify strategies which might help ameliorate the problem, select the most appropriate strategy, and determine if the
strategy was successful Barton, 1997. Strategy based reading programs promote and foster critical thinking of students. These strategies require students to dig deeper in order to deepen
their understanding of the text. This is because students are thinking when they’re reading. Students are monit
oring their thought processes and asking questions while they’re reading. Literacy researchers have been able to extract from those studies and have agreed upon the
seven key strategies that encourage reading comprehension and growth. Those strategies are: creating visualizations, making connections, asking questions, inferring, determining
importance and synthesizing, and monitoring one’s comprehension while engaged with texts Zimmerman, C. Hutchins, C., 2003.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher intends to conduct a study that concerns to the topic. The study will analyze the
students’perception on reading strategies for improving reading comprehension. The study will investigate the
students’ reading strategies in reading lesson. Hopefully, from those investigations, the researcher will find out
whatstudent s’perception on reading strategies for and help students to discover their own
reading startegies.
1.2 Research Question
The purpose of the study is to investigate the students’ perception on reading strategies
for junior high school.
1. What isstudent
s’ perception on reading strategies for improving reading comprehension?
1.3 The Aim of the Research
From the earlier explanations and the proposed research questions, the study attempts to explore the
students’ strategies in reading. Given the above research question, the aim of this study is:
1. To find out student
s’ perception on reading strategies for improving reading comprehension
Yulita Estin Prihandini, 2014 STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON READING STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia |
repository.upi.edu |
perpustakaan.upi.edu
1.4 Scope of the Study
The study focused on the students’ perception on reading strategies for improving
reading comprehension. The research was conducted in teaching learning process; in junior high school. The study analyzed the student
s’ perception on reading strategies for improving
reading comprehension.
1.5 Significance of the Study
This study is expected to give benefits for many people, especially for those who are associated with this area.
Theoritically, the result of the reasearch are expected to enrich the literature on English teaching reading and also give beneficial references for future research on reading skills that
students need to succeed. For the next reasearchers, the result of the reasearch can be used as a contribution of
opinion that can be taken as references for another investigation in the same area in different contexts.
Practically, for English teachers, it is important for teacher to know what students’
background, their weaknesses and strengthen to motivate students in improving their skill in reading comprehension. And choose the appropriate strategiesin teaching reading
comprehension. For students, it is important for students to learn about reading. Not only add so many new vocabularies but also enhance their knowledge about English language and fix
the grammar structure. This research could help the students to discover their own reading strategies so that they can manipulate it in making the reading more successful.
1.6 Research Methodology
