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57 No Questions Answers Number Percentage have any difficulties in reading English texts? b. no 8 a. From the topics of recount text listed in the following, the participants choose 3 topics they like most. b. From the topics of descriptive text listed in the following, the participants choose 3 topics they like most. c. From the topics of narrative text listed in the following, the participants choose 3 topics they like most. a.1 biography 2 exploration 3 important events 4 invention 5 unforgettable experience b. 1 animals 2 interesting places 3 outer space 4 people 5 plants c. 1 fable 2 fairy tale 3 folk tale 4 legend 5 myth 46 53 36 39 51 59 55 60 31 20 37 41 47 51 49 61.33 70.67 48 52 68 78.67 73.33 80 41.33 26.67 49.33 54.67 62.67 68 65.33 9 While reading English texts, what strategies do the participants use? a. Reading the text quickly to identify the main ideas or the content of the text in general before reading carefully. b. Reading the text quickly to find specific information in the text. c. Predicting the content of the next paragraph while reading. d. Arranging questions they expect the text to answer before reading the whole text. e. Relating the content of the text to the knowledge they have. f. Identifying sentence structure g. Trying not to translate the text word by word. h. Relating one information to the other information in the text. i. Guessing the meaning of a new word by relating it to the other words in its sentence or 20 31 35 11 25 28 21 25 56 26.67 41.33 46.67 14.67 33.33 37.33 28 33.33 74.67 58 No Questions Answers Number Percentage paragraph. j. Opening the dictionary for unknown words. k. 69 - 92 - the participants may answer more than one the participants may freely answer the question based on their own opinion Based on the results of the questionnaire above, all of the students started learning English at school before they entered Junior High school. Even 13.33 of them started learning English from kindergarten. None of them started learning English from Elementary school grade 6. These results showed that English was not new for them. Since this research focused on English reading materials and skills, the questions in the questionnaire were mostly specified into the matters related to reading. There were questions which the students might answer more than one options and there were also questions which the students might freely answer based on their opinion. From the questions number 2, it could be seen that the students realized the importance of English reading skill for their present and future life. 72 students stated English reading skill was very important. The rest or 28 of the students stated that English reading skill was important. Nobody stated that this skill was not important. The third question asked the students why they needed to have English reading skill for. There were five options provided, they were: studying; communicating with foreigners; working in the future life; passing national final examination; reading information from various media. The students might answer PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI