Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Reading Strategies Used by Literary Theory and Application Students

READING STRATEGIES USED BY
LITERARY THEORY AND APPLICATION STUDENTS
Fatiah Laily Raharjanti
(112006036)
Abstract
Reading is an important skill for English Department of Satya Wacana
Christian University students. Many subjects in this department require students
to read, but many students dislike reading because often they do not understand
the text. The problem, actually, is not the students’ inability in reading but their
lack of interest. The aim of this study was to examine students’ reading strategies
used when they read academic texts, especially Literary Theory and Application
(LTA) reading texts. This study used quantitative as well as qualitative method. I
used a questionnaire that was distributed to 47 students who already taken LTA
class. The results showed that student used three kinds of reading strategies:
cognitive, metacognitive, and compensating reading strategies. There were
students who used one single reading strategy like metacognitive or compensating
reading strategies only, but there were also students who combined two reading
strategies; cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies, metacognitive and
compensating reading strategies, or metacognitive and compensating reading
strategies, or combine those three reading strategies, cognitive, metacognitive, and
compensating reading strategies, altogether. In addition to that, compensating

reading strategies became the most frequent reading strategy used by LTA
students. There were seven compensating reading strategies revealed in this study
and high-lighting appeared as the most frequent reading strategy being used
Keywords: reading strategies, LTA students