Dina Damayanti
Universitas Syiah Kuala

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Surveying Metacognitive Reading Strategies Awareness of Fifth-Semester English Department Students Dina Damayanti; Sofyan A. Gani; Teuku Zulfikar
English Education Journal Vol 10, No 4 (2019): English Education Journal (EEJ)
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

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This article serves result on the survey for metacognitive awareness level of reading strategies use in academic reading by English department students of Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah), Banda Aceh. The research measured their the respondents’ use and preferences of strategies in academic reading by using the inventory designed by Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002) called SORS (Survey of Reading Strategies). A total of 46 fifth semester students of Unsyiah English Department became the respondents. Analysis from the data collection showed that the respondent’s possessed a medium level overall tendency of metacogntive reading strategy awareness. Meanwhile strategies such as “getting back concentration” and “re-reading” when text is difficult achieved high use frequencies.The result revealed that the problem-solving reading strategies was the most preferred subscales among the other two subscales, indicating the respondents’ preference to use during-reading strategies.