Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)

The Effect of Reading Strategies and Speed Reading on Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill in Higher Education

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Amril Amir
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Amril Amir
Available Online March 2019.
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10.2991/icla-18.2019.68How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Reading Strategies, Speed Reading, and Reading Comprehension Skill
Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of reading strategy and speed reading on students reading comprehension skill. The population were 4996 students. Further, 370 students were selected using the technique proportional stratified random sampling. The instrument of this study were a Likert scale questionnaire and reading comprehension. The data obtained have been analyzed by simple regresions and multiple regresions. The result was the effects reading strategies and speed reading on reading is and positive and significance in reading comprehensions skill.The results of this study show that (1) there is a effect contribution to the reading strategies toward reading comprehension skills by 24,2% (sig. 0,000), (2) there is a contribution of the speed reading toward reading comprehension skills by 30,7% (sig. 0,000, and (3) there is a contribution of the reading strategies and speed reading on the students' reading comprehension skills by 18,85% (sig. 0,000).

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-683-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icla-18.2019.68How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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