AN ANALYSIS OF READING STRATEGIES USED BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY

This research aimed at finding out types of reading strategies and the dominant
reading strategies used by the fourth semester students of English Education
Study Program in Muhammadiyah University. The subject of this research was all
fourth semester students of English Education Study Program in academic year
2018/2019. This research used descriptive quantitative method in the form of
survey. The data were collected by using the questionnaire as the instrument. The
result shows that the fourth semester students of English Education Study
Program in Muhammadiyah University used the four reading strategies in reading:
cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, and testing strategies. The dominant
reading strategy used was metacognitive strategy. Among the four strategies,
metacognitive strategies (3.2) were the most frequent strategies used by the fourth
semester students. It was followed by testing strategies with average score (3.0),
compensation strategies with average score (2.9), and finally cognitive strategies
with average score (2.8). The four reading strategies were categorized in moderate
level. It can be concluded that the students were using the four reading strategies
quite well, and they used metacognitive strategy mostly when they do a reading
activity in the classroom, such as thinking about the learning process, planning for
learning, monitoring the learning task, and evaluating how well one has learned.
Key words: Reading, Reading strategies