The Strategy Used in Increasing Reading Comprehension of the Students of English Education Faculty Muria Kudus University in the Academic Year 2008/2009

The Strategy Used in Increasing Reading Comprehension of the Students of English Education Faculty Muria Kudus University in the Academic Year 2008/2009

The Strategy Used in Increasing Reading Comprehension of the Students of English Education Faculty Muria Kudus University in the Academic... 6:39 PM

The Strategy Used in Increasing Reading Comprehension of the Students of English Education Faculty Muria Kudus University in the Academic Year 2008/2009

In Indonesia, English is the foreign language which is learned by students of Elementary School up to the University. Muria Kudus University is one of university which has English Department. The students learn how to become good English teachers who have good skills in language. They have to master English language skills as speaking, listening, writing, and reading.

Reading is very important skill. Understanding reading text well will enlarge someone knowledge. For that reason, all the students of EED UMK take Reading subject since they are in the first semester. Regarding the result of Reading I, Reading IV, and Extensive Reading II on the even semester in academic year 2007/2008 showed that about 80% of students who take those classes got satisfying result, it is assumed that the teaching learning of Reading subjects are success. It is assumed that they apply several strategies of reading to increase their reading comprehension. For that reason, the writer is encouraged to analyze such the phenomenon.

This analysis study is carried out to: (i) To know the strategies used in increasing reading comprehension of the students of EED UMK in the academic year 2008/2009 (ii) To identify the difficulties faced by the students of EED UMK in the academic year 2008/2009 in increasing their reading comprehension

This research uses descriptive qualitative methodology. Since this research gives description strategies used and the difficulties in increasing reading comprehension. The population in this study is all the students of EED UMK who took Reading II in the academic year 2008/2009. The instrument that is used in this test is Questionnaire. The result of the data analysis is described in order to provide description of the strategies used in increasing reading comprehension of the students of EED UMK in the academic year 2008/2009 and their difficulties. .

From analyzing the data of this research, it was obtained that; (i) There are 13 strategies which is used by the students of EED UMK in increasing their reading comprehension (ii) There are three major difficulties faced by the students of EED UMK.