Analyzing the Students Strategies in Reading at Different Level of Competency
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Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah (i) untuk menemukan jenis strategi apakah yang paling banyak digunakan oleh siswa. (ii) untuk menemukan strategi apakah yang paling banyak digunakan oleh kelompok pintar dan lemah. Subjek dari penelitian ini adalah 28 siswa kelas tiga SMPN 2 Sungkai Utara. Instrumen dalam penelitian ini adalah Kwesioner dan tes membaca. Hasil dari instrumen tersebut dianalisa melalui descriptive analysis. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa strategi metakognitif paling banyak digunakan. Terlebih lagi, baik kelompok pintar dan lemah menggunakan strategi metakognitif. Oleh karena itu, tidak ada perbedaan dalam strategi yang dipakai baik pada kelompok pintar dan lemah. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa siswa lebih sering menggunakan strategi metakognitif.
The aims of the research were (i) to find out what kind of strategy is mostly used by the students, and (ii) to find out what strategies do the good and poor students employ in reading. This research was descriptive study. The subjects of the research were 28 of third grade students in SMPN 2 Sungkai Utara. Reading test and Questionnaire were used as the instrument to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The result of the research showed that the metacognitive strategy is the most used by all students. Furthermore, both of the poor and good level students employ metacognitive strategy. This suggests that metacognitive is the most employed reading strategy by students.
Keywords: students strategies, reading, level of competencyFull Text:
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