U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 2, No 3 (2013): U-JET

THE ROLE OF METACOGNITIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES IN STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION

Rizky Bunga Listari (Unknown)
Bambang Setiyadi (Unknown)
Budi Kadaryanto (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Apr 2013

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find whether there is any significant correlation between metacognitive learning strategies and students’ reading comprehension and to find out how frequent students have applied each metacognitive learning strategies in their learning reading. This research was conducted at the first grade of SMA Negeri 7 Bandar Lampung. This is a quantitative co-relation study that focused on the product (result of the test). The result showed that the students used arranging and evaluating more frequently than centering and planning strategies. The mean score of arranging and evaluating are 4.88 and 3.48 which mean these strategies are frequently used. The calculation showed that the coefficient correlation (r) was 0.924 which mean that there is high correlation between metacognitive learning strategies and students’ reading comprehension. It indicates that the teachers need to introduce to the learners about metacognitive learning strategies to succeed in reading.  Keywords: Reading comprehension, arranging, evaluating, centering, planning, metacognitive learning strategies.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...