ABSTRACT

Ardy, Nidha Jublina. 2020. Reading Strategies Employed by Advanced Reading Class (A1) Students at English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat UniversityBatch 2018. Sarjana’s Thesis. English Language Education Study Program, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first Advisor: Dr. Cayandrawati Sutiono, M.A., the second advisor: Emma Rosana Febriyanti, M.Pd.

Keywords:      Reading, Strategy and Reading Strategies

Reading was said as an important skill beside other three skills for language learners. Reading was one of the subjects  in English Language Education Study Program that sometimes hada reading comprehension test. It was assumed that the students who had learned reading for three semesters also had learnedreading strategies. Thus, the objective of the study was to find out what reading strategies employed by students of Advanced Reading class (A1) at English Language Education Study Program of FKIP Lambung Mangkurat University in batch 2018.

The researcher used qualitative as the approach of this research. The setting was FKIP of Lambung Mangkurat University. The subjects were Advanced Reading classes at English Language Education Study Program of FKIP Lambung Mangkurat University in batch 2018. The researcher selectedAdvanced Reading Class (A1) as a sample. The researcher gave test to get achievement results. Then, the researcher interviewed two students who are willing as interviewees. The results’ interviewpresented through descriptive analysis.

The findings showed that the interviewee used identifying the purpose in reading, skimming, scanning, making guessing, vocabulary analysis, distinguishing between literal meaning and implied meanings, and capitalizing on discourse markers to proceed relationships. The interviewees have weakness in differentiating literal and implied meanings and found hard to use graphemic rules and patterns to aid the bottom-up decoding using semantic mapping and clustering, and efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension.Based on the research findings, it could be concluded that the interviewees used efficient reading strategies.It was suggested that students had to learn more about reading strategies and do more practices in reading comprehension testsusing reading strategies.