Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies In Critical Reading And Literacy Course Used By Indonesian Efl University Students: A Survey Study

Abstract

Metacognitive awareness of reading strategy is important for students to apply. Beside that, it is the fact that reading is an important skills that influences success in learning a foreign language. There have been many studies on metacognitive awareness in reading strategy but each study is rarely specific to its readers, it means that readers who are categorized belong to the intermediate level, in this study the researcher took samples from critical reading and literacy courses. The researcher specifies this research to the readers who are also at the university level. However, there hasn't been much research in Indonesia on how reading methods are used in relation to students' metacognitive awareness. The purpose of this study was to identify metacognitive awareness of reading strategies that are frequently used by EFL students at a private university in Yogyakarta, during online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The population in this study were students majoring in English Education at a private university in Yogyakarta. The number of samples in this study were 114 respondents. This survey study adopted a survey of the questionnaire of Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategy Inventory (MARSI-R inventory) developed by Mokhtari et al. (2018). The results of this study indicated that students majoring in English Education at a private University in Yogyakarta used three reading strategies, namely global reading strategies (GLOB), problem-solving strategies (PROB), and support strategies (SUP), with the PROB who got the highest score and the support reading strategies (SUP) got the lowest score of the strategies used by the students. The results of this study will have an impact on the reading skills of students who use the reading strategy, the PROB strategy is the highest result of the other three strategies, almost all students admit that they underline or circle information in the text to help them remember it. Thus, it can be concluded that reading strategies are essential in practical reading activities.