A STUDY ON STUDENTS’ SELF-REGULATED LEARNING TOWARD THEIR READING COMPREHENSION IN BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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The objective of this research was to identify students’ self-regulated learning to their reading comprehension achievement in Bung Hatta University. This study was particularly aimed at: 1. identifying students’ self-regulated learning to reading comprehension achievement, 2. Identifying students’ reading comprehension. The design of this research was descriptive. Total number of population of this research was 115 students of the third year at English Department, spread out into three classes. In choosing the sample, the writer used cluster random sampling. The selected sample was class C. They were 30 students. The data were collected from questionnaire, reading test and interview. Questionnaire was used to identify students’ self-regulated learning to their reading comprehension achievement, reading test was used to identify students’ reading comprehension and interview was used to support data from questionnaire. The result of analyzing data of this study showed that two conclusions. First, the students’ self-regulated learning to their reading comprehension was seemed to have moderate-level implementation of SRL. Second, the students’ reading comprehension of main ideas and supporting details was moderate (66.67%). This result proved some experts’ opinion about students’ self-regulated learning that it is important predictor of students’ successfulness on reading comprehension. Based on the findings, the researcher suggests that students should use appropriate strategy to make them much better in reading comprehension. Then for lecturers, the researcher suggests that the lecturer should be able to motivate students becoming self-regulated learner.
Key words: Self-regulated Learning, Reading Comprehension, and Reading Strategy