THE INTERPLAY OF COMPENSATION STRATEGIES AND STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF LANGUAGE LEARNERS
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https://doi.org/10.47323/ujss.v3i2.219Keywords:
Correlation, Compensation Strategies and Reading ComprehensionAbstract
Language learning strategies are offered and employed as boosting and facilitating factors. Having its benefits, language learning strategies appear to be effective terms of different language skills. Reading comprehension is one of the important skills and language learning strategies have some facilities in this skill too. There are some strategies that appropriate for reading comprehension and most of them have purpose to make the reading process more effective and time-efficient. One of the strategy is compensation strategy that help reader comprehend their reading faster by guessing intelligently using linguistic and non-linguistic clues. So, this study is conduct to measure the degree of the correlation between compensation strategies and students’ reading comprehension. The research design applied in this research is quantitative and the approach of this research is correlation quantitative research. The sample of this research is the third year students of Nusantara PGRI University Kediri that consisting 24 students. To get the data, the researcher used two instruments. They are questionnaire and reading test. Based on the result of this research, the mean score of students’ questionnaire is 40,125. The score is in the average of often using compensation strategy. It means that the students in Nusantara PGRI University Kediri often used compensation strategies. Besides, the result also shows that the students’ reading comprehension in Nusantara PGRI University is good enough. It was proved by the mean score of the reading test is 77. Then, the data is computed by using Pearson Product Moment Formula. The result shown that the score of rxy is higher than rxy–table in significant 1% and 5%. In other words, there is any significant correlation between students’ compensation strategy and students’ reading comprehension. According to the result of this research, it can be concluded that the better compensation strategies applied by the students so the better reading comprehension achieve. From that statement, the researcher suggests the students to apply the compensation strategies to increase their English skill, especially reading. The writer also suggests the teacher to help the students in applying compensation strategies by giving them a game to teach them about how to guess the meaning of a new word from prefixes, suffixes and the other clues of compensation strategies.
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