Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)

Exploring the Reading Strategies Used by Male and Female Students

Authors
Yulia Efnawati, Mukhaiyar
Corresponding Author
Yulia Efnawati
Available Online 26 March 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.055How to use a DOI?
Keywords
reading, reading strategy, male and female
Abstract

Reading strategy had been considered as the obligatory to the EFL learners. Reading strategy is a learning technique to enable the students to comprehend the text well and make them become a high proficiency level of readers. This study aims to find out what reading strategy used by male and female EFL learners. This study used document analysis as a research design to collect the data. It also used to strengthen the procedure to find out the usage of reading strategy. The results showed the significant differences of the strategy used between male and female students. Male students are greater strategy use than Female on memory, cognitive, and compensatory strategy, while the female students are reported as high strategy used on social-effective strategy and metacognitive strategy. The findings suggest the teacher to consider the way of teaching reading in the class due to the finding research which is the use of reading strategy by male and female students, and for the students, they can build the process of their comprehension using the strategy which are appropriate to their reading needs.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 March 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-358-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.055How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, 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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