The English Reading Proficiency of Universitas Padjadjaran Undergraduates: A Case Study in Faculty of Cultural Sciences

Ida Farida Sachmadi, Lestari Manggong, Lia Maulia Indrayani

2018

Abstract

Reading competence is a critical element to be successful in learning in university level. This study aims to measure reading proficiency levels of the second year students and their attitude towards English. The method of this research is based upon the language attitudes theory, adopted from Sarnoff and Asmah, and a series of questionnaire based on Likert Scale. The reading proficiency is gained from a reading test evaluating five-component skills: vocabulary knowledge, drawing inferences and predictions, identifying references, identifying the main idea and summarizing skills, and identifying supporting information. The participants are 144 second year undergraduate students: 39 students from Japanese Study Program, 53 from History Study Program, and 52 students from Sundanese Study Program, enrolled in 2016-2017 academic year. The data are collected through a reading comprehension test. The result of this study indicates that there is a mixed and wide variation of students reading competence levels; there is one study program whose students have very good ability in reading English texts, another has students with middle ability, and the other one has very low ability. The students from the first study program are ready for reading advenced-level English texts, meanwhile a significant number of students in the study program last mentioned are inadequately prepared for university reading. This study is a preliminary research, for this result will be put as the initial data for creating and then testing an appropriate teaching method of further study in English.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sachmadi I., Manggong L. and Indrayani L. (2018). The English Reading Proficiency of Universitas Padjadjaran Undergraduates: A Case Study in Faculty of Cultural Sciences. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 361-366. DOI: 10.5220/0008218300002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Ida Farida Sachmadi and Lestari Manggong and Lia Maulia Indrayani},
title={The English Reading Proficiency of Universitas Padjadjaran Undergraduates: A Case Study in Faculty of Cultural Sciences},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={361-366},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008218300002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - The English Reading Proficiency of Universitas Padjadjaran Undergraduates: A Case Study in Faculty of Cultural Sciences
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Sachmadi I.
AU - Manggong L.
AU - Indrayani L.
PY - 2018
SP - 361
EP - 366
DO - 10.5220/0008218300002284