READING STRATEGIES FOR EXTENSIVE READING STUDENTS OF ENGLISH TRAINING AND EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITAS EKASAKTI

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify reading strategy choice of English Training and Education at Universitas Ekasakti. Based on Hatami et al (2017), there are three different groups of strategies namely support reading strategies, problem solving strategies and global reading strategies. To this end, the main instrument was Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) Questionnaire. It was given to 14 extensive reading students of English Training and Education at Universitas Ekasakti. Students had to choose among the five different options for each strategy type such as,  “I never or almost never do this”, “I do this only occasionally”, “ I sometimes do this”, “ I usually do this”, or “I always or almost always do this.” Among on the three groups by Hatami et al, the students have tendency toward using support reading strategies than others types.