READING STRATEGIES USED BY EFL LEARNERS AT INDONESIAN MUSLIM UNIVERSITY

ABSTRACT
ABDILLAH ASSAGAF, “Reading Strategies Used by EFL Learners at Indonesian Moslem University” (Supervised by Hj. Hafsah Amin Nur and James Shewmaker).
Reading as a compulsory subject in English department will contribute at least for getting information and advancing students ability in English, and others, reading is as a life-skill in order to support their future. In terms of comprehending a text or even possessing a good ability to read, a reader must have linguistic knowledge, and knowledge of the world.
Acquiring good ability to read English is difficult for EFL learners. Nevertheless, a good language learner usually equips himself with specific actions, steps, and behavior in facilitating him to read well. In other words, using reading strategies.
This study aims at describing reading strategies the students use and comparing between the use of the reading strategy and reading class achievement.
Twenty students of English Department of Indonesian Moslem University were involved in this study. The respondents were asked to fill in questionnaire–reading strategy inventory. It contains response a, b, c, d, and e and score for each 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 consecutively. The collected data were then tabulated and analyzed by means of statistic description in order to determine reading strategies and or learning strategy category used by the students and to find out the correlation between the reading strategy and reading class achievement. The decision was taken by counting up total score of reading strategies and that average score of learning strategy category. These scores were related to interval figure.
This study found that student tend to apply strategies in at a frequency level of somewhat and usually. And that there is a strong correlation between Reading Strategies with Reading Class Achievement