STRATEGIES IN ANSWERING READING COMPREHENSION QUESTION: A CASE OF TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS’ OF SMAN 5 SEMARANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

Abstract

The statement of this study is “what strategies did the students apply in answering reading comprehension questions” and “which strategy was mostly used by the students”. The objectives of the study are to find out the strategies the students applied in answering reading comprehension questions and determine the most strategies that students used. The data in this research are collected from a questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire uses a survey questionnaire called Survey of Reading Strategy created by Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002) by dividing 30 reading strategies into three subscales; 13 statements of Global Reading strategies, 8 statements of Problem Solving Reading strategies, and 9 Support Reading strategies. The purpose of this questionnaire is to find out the frequencies of reading strategies usage and interview to make sure the information and data from
the questionnaire. The analytical procedures employed to explore the research questions strategies were computed using the SPSS version 16.0. The frequency of reading strategies used on the subject is considered as high-level. The mean score between the three subscales in using reading strategies was 3.74. The results reveal that these samples concern problem-solving reading strategies (PROB) with the mean 4.31 “Trying to stay focused on reading when losing concentration” and the Global Reading (GLOB) strategies, “Checking my understanding when new information comes” get 3.97 of the mean. Supporting strategies (SUP), there are two statements in highly use, those are “Asking oneself questions” and “Thinking about information in both English and mother tongue” which get 3.83 mean. Based on the processed statistical data, the most frequent reading strategies is Problemsolving.