Skripsi
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ READING STRATEGIES IN ANSWERING READING SECTION OF USEPT (UNIVERSITY OF SRIWIJAYA ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST)
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is used as a requirement to graduate in almost all universities in Indonesia. The use of a test measuring students’ English proficiency for the academic matter is also applied at Sriwijaya University, which is called USEPT or University of Sriwijaya English Proficiency Test. The objective of this study was to investigate the strategies that the students of the English Education Study Program within Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Sriwijaya University who have done USEPT more than once applied in their attempt to answer the questions of the Reading section. Applying a quantitative study design, this present study got involved 10 students of the English Education Study Program within Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Sriwijaya University, whose reading score of their USEPT was 52 and above 52, as the participants of study. The data were from the questionnaire responded by the students and analyzed statistically by applying percentage analysis. The result of the data analysis showed that the students did have strategies such as read the question, scanning and skimming, etc., in their attempt to answer the reading questions of the Reading section of the USEPT or University of Sriwijaya English Proficiency Test and their reading strategies were varied. Keywords : USEPT, English proficiency test, reading strategies, tertiary students
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