Arianto, M. Affandi (2017) Critical reading strategy in terms of gender used by the four graduate students in the ELT program at Universitas Negeri Malang / M. Affandi Arianto. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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ABSTRACT Arianto Muhammad Affandi. 2016. Critical Reading Strategy in Terms of Gender Used by the Four Graduate Students in the ELT Program of Universitas Negeri Malang. Thesis English Education Department of Graduate Program Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors (I) Dr. Suharmanto Ruslan M.Pd. (II) Dr. Enni Irawaty M.Pd. Key words Critical Reading Strategy Gender Research studies on critical reading strategies have revealed that students used those strategies in different ways and those are used depend on their needs. Relating to the gender scope it is still unpredictable whether the types of critical reading strategy used by male are different from those which are used by female students. In reading academic sources graduate students as critical readers are expected to analyze synthesize review criticize and evaluate what they read. It is necessary to explore what the types of critical reading strategy used by graduate students and compare between the types of critical reading strategies used by graduate male students and those used by graduate female students. The purposes of the research are to identify the types of critical reading strategy used by graduate students of ELT program of Universitas Negeri Malang and compare the types of critical reading strategy used by male students and those used by females. It is comparative qualitative research where the four graduate students in academic year 2014/2015 two males and two females have been taken involved as the subjects of this research. In analyzing the critical reading strategy used reading comprehension test will be used as the instrument of this research. The test is used with two purposes 1) to clarify whether the subjects are categorized as good critical readers or not and 2) to identify the types of critical reading strategy used by conducting retrospective think aloud. Retrospective think aloud through written report is used in this research as a method of data collection and it is done after the subjects completing the reading comprehension test. The results show that there are eight types of critical reading strategies used by graduate students. Those are previewing contextualizing questioning to understand and remember reflecting on challenges to beliefs and values outlining and summarizing evaluating the text comparing and contrasting related reading and solving vocabulary problem strategy. Secondly the types of critical reading strategy use by graduate male students found based on the retrospective think aloud are previewing contextualizing questioning to understand and remember reflecting on challenges to beliefs and values outlining and summarizing evaluating the text and solving vocabulary problem strategy. It is different from the types of critical reading strategy used by female students. They use previewing contextualizing questioning to understand and remember reflecting on challenges to beliefs and values outlining and summarizing evaluating the text and comparing and contrasting related reading. So there are seven types of crtical reading strategy used by each gender. However the male students do not use comparing and contrasting related reading strategy while the females use the strategy. In addition the female students do not use solving vocabulary problem strategy while the male students use the strategy. The frequency of applying the types of critical reading strategy between males (42 times) and females (42 times) is same. However considering about the most effective type of critical reading strategy used they are different. The most effective type of critical reading strategy which is used by females is the evaluating the text strategy while males is questioning to understand and remember strategy. Furthermore the most ineffective type of the strategy used by females and males is also same as the most effective one evaluating the text strategy and questioning to understand and remember strategy. It can be caused by the overuse of the types of critical reading strategy and lack of creativity to combine with the other types of critical reading strategy. Besides the difference between both females and males is located on the process of their reading comprehension. Based on the activities related to the types of critical reading strategy it was found that females tend to use their cognitive process whereas males tend to process their metacognitive more than females. Besides both females and males also use the top down processing while reading. The factor that may influence it is because they are demanded to read a lot of sources in the graduate program. Reading articles more can train their top down processing and easy to solve the difficult words. As a result when they faced the problems related to the difficult words they have a lot of knowledge in their minds which is used to encounter them. Regarding to the research findings and discussions for teachers particularly in teaching reading it is suggested to teachers as instructors to push their students to use critical reading strategy which can influence reading comprehension achievement. In other words those who employ critical reading strategy appropriately while reading would show higher success in reading comprehension and become good critical readers.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2017 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2017 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58851 |
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