The Use of Cognitive Reading Strategies on The Third

Semester Students of Muhammadiyah University of

Bengkulu

Wiwi Herawati
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Phenomenon
Cognitive Reading Strategies is cognitive strategies to obtain,
storage, retrieval or use of information to support the learner
to develop internal procedures that enable students to perform
tasks that are compleks.
In this research the researcher want to know the use of
Cognitive reading strategies, especially about bottom-up and
top-down in the third semester students at English Department
Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in Academic Year
2015/2016.

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Research Question
How is Cognitive Reading Strategies
Used by English Students in The
Third Semester at English
Department Muhammadiyah
University of Bengkulu in Academic
Year 2015/2016?
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Objective of The
Research
The objective of this research is to
describe of cognitive reading startegies
used by English students in the third
semester
at
English
Department
Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in
Academic Year 2015/2016

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Review of Literature

In this research used Goodman theory (1967:135):

Bottom-Up is meant to be a process the students reading
text, then sentences in order to get the meaning of the text
and the students answers the questions from the text.
Top-Down is model of the reading process offers an
alternative understanding of the process of reading,
asserting that the reader uses the information provided by
the text. The readers focus of attention is less on every
detail of the printed matter and more on the larger
conceptual context. In this way, the reader gains an
understanding of the intent of the whole text and is able to
predict what will come next.

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Methodology
Design of the research used Descriptive Method. Maxwell (1996:63)
Subject of the research were :

Population : All of students in the third semester students of English at

Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in Academic Year 2015/2016, which is
separate into 3 classes, the total number of them are 122 .

Sample: The sample of this research was taken by using simple random sampling
where the sample have been taken randomly by using lottery. The sample of this
research was 50% from the total number of population. It means that there were 61
sample students.

Instrument of the research : - Reading Task

Collecting the Data: - Gave reading text to the students
- Students read asked to the text
- Gave 30 minutes for students to answered the question.
- collected the answered
- Data were collected

Analyzing the Data: - Identified students answered

- Classified students answered based on bottom-up and topdown from Goodman theory (1967:135)
-Writing the conclusion about the data

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Results
The used of cognitive reading
strategies in the third semester
students of Muhammadiyah
University of Bengkulu was good
enough. It can be seen that from
62 students in the third semester
(A, B and C) who were given three
topics, 38 students could answer
correctly.

Suggestions
For the reader, as a guidance and
reference to observe the cognitive
reading strategies for the next
observation. It also can be a
previous
study
for
another
research which is related to this
research.

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