EFFECTIVE READING STRATEGIES FOR READING SKILLS

Authors

  • Dewi Kartika Sari
  • Etty Pratiwi
  • Ana Thereana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31851/esteem.v2i2.2429

Abstract

The researchers had found that learning reading strategies is a key element in developing student comprehension. However, many teachers lack a solid foundation for teaching these reading comprehension strategies. Therefore, teachers need to be prepared on how to design effective reading comprehension strategies and how to teach these strategies to their students. Therefore this study aims to study the effective reading strategies in order to improve reading skills in language classes. The study is an action research applied to a number of 15 students in an intermediate level integrated skills course. The main question of the study is “Would reading strategies help my students’ reading comprehension studies?â€. The result od the study indicate that the students had an improvement to a great extend have been tutored about the reading strategies.

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Published

2018-10-29