Author (Penulis)

DWIKI ADE MULYANTAMA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0061

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is an important skill or action. In reading activity, students usually face some problems (decoding and comprehending). In fact, they should understand the information when they read, so that, they can be success in reading. Learning strategies is one of the factors which can influence the students’ success in learning something and to be high achiever. In this research, the writer only identified on learning strategies in reading. He found two third grade students of English Department at University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri, who fulfilled the criterias of a high achiever, especially in reading field. So that, it was known: 1) the kinds of learning strategies on reading applied by high achievers, 2) the most frequent strategy used by them, and 3) the reason of using the most frequent strategy. This research is a case study and use qualitative approach. In collecting the data, the writer became full observer and used questionnaire as quantitative data, and documentation and interview as qualitative data. To analyzing the quantitative data, the writer totalized the score of each strategy from questionnaire results. While the qualitative data, he used three steps (data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification) to analyze the results of documentation and interview. This research was conducted in six months. From this research, there are three points that can be discovered: 1) There are six learning strategies are used by high achievers, and have good effects in reading. 2) Compensation Strategy is the strategy which is the most frequently used by high achievers in solving the problems of reading. 3) High achievers students have different reasons in applying learning strategies when they get problems, it is because of interest and urgent time. Key words: learning strategies, reading, high achievers

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-29

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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