The Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading and their Influence on Reading Comprehension of Junior High School Students in the Upland Region of Java

DOI

10.2991/iciap-17.2018.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

metacognitive strategies, reading comprehension, think-aloud, upland.

Abstract

Reading comprehension plays an important role in students’ academic achievement. One’s level of reading comprehension is shown to be related to the use of metacognitive strategies in the reading process. This study will identify the types of metacognitive strategies used in the reading process by 55 junior high school students in the upland region of Java, and it will analyze the influence of these strategies on students' reading comprehension. In this study, a think-aloud procedure was applied to identify the types of metacognitive strategies students used during the reading process. This study found 15 types of metacognitive strategies and divided them into two groups based on Perffeti’s dichotomy (1989): (1) strategies for achieving the meaning of the text (7 types); and (2) strategies for achieving the interpretation of the text (2 types). The rest of six types are considered “transitional strategies” (Suradijono, 2003). The second group represents a higher level of metacognitive strategies because they involve complex information processing. This study indicated that students more commonly use the first set of strategy types. The results also showed that the three metacognitive strategies of Repetition, Knowledge Evaluation, and New Knowledge had a significant effect on reading comprehension. This research recommends metacognitive scaffolding training to enhance student skills in using metacognitive strategies to improve reading comprehension.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Melly Latifah
AU  - Sri Hartati R. Suradijono
AU  - Lucia Retno Mursitolaksmi
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - The Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading and their Influence on Reading Comprehension of Junior High School Students in the Upland Region of Java
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 136
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iciap-17.2018.12
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