@phdthesis{eprintsunpak3571,
            year = {2021},
           title = {STUDENTS? STRATEGIES IN COMPREHENDING ENGLISH 
SCIENTIFIC TEXT
A PAPER
Submitted to the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of 
Teacher Training and Educational Sciences, Pakuan University as a partial 
Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Sarjana Pendidikan Examination},
          school = {Universitas Pakuan},
           month = {November},
          author = {Jessica Sondang Mora Tua Nainggolan and Yanti Suryanti and Asih Wahyuni},
        abstract = {The paper entitled ?Students? Strategies in Comprehending English Scientific Text? 
discussed the kinds of strategies used by the students in comprehending scientific 
text. The aim of this research is to find out which reading strategies students used 
to comprehend the scientific text, such as finding out the main idea, inference, and 
reference. This research applied the descriptive qualitative method. The data were 
collected from documentation, questionnaire, and interview of 14 fourth-semester 
students in one class. The researcher analyzed the data by classifying the keywords 
from students? responses, then described them to explain the main point of the data 
found and finally arranged the information described in order to draw the 
conclusion. Therefore, based on the result of the research, it shows that kinds of 
strategies applied by the students are, paraphrasing, elaboration, predicting, and 
summarizing strategy. The students actively used these strategies in reading 
scientific text. In addition, to make reading easier to understand, the strategies also 
have an indirect contribution to honoring students' critical and analytical thinking.
Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Scientific Text, Students? Strategies},
             url = {http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/3571/}
}