Strategies In Reading English Web-Novels On Wattpad : A Quantitative Survey Study Of Undergraduate Students In Indonesia Who Read English Web-Novels On Wattpad

Wulandari, Ismi Nur (2023) Strategies In Reading English Web-Novels On Wattpad : A Quantitative Survey Study Of Undergraduate Students In Indonesia Who Read English Web-Novels On Wattpad. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Tanjungpura.

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Abstract

The popularity of online reading on Wattpad led the researcher to conduct this research to investigate metacognitive awareness of digital and online reading strategies among wattpad readers who read English web-novels. The researcher also investigated whether their metacognitive awareness of online and digital reading strategies were influenced by their English proficiency (TOEFL and TUTEP) and their field study, also which features of Wattpad that help them in their reading. By using quantitative survey, and adapting Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Study Inventory (MARSI) by Mokhtari et al. (2018) to collect the data, the study was conducted to 39 undergraduate students who read English web-novels on Wattpad. This study found out that their metacognitive awareness of online and digital reading strategies in reading English web-novels on Wattpad were at a medium level (M = 3.42), with Problem Solving Reading Strategies as the most used strategies (M = 3.80) followed by Global Reading Strategies (M = 3.73) and Support Reading Strategies (M = 2.73). Moreover, the study about whether their English Proficiency and field study influenced their metacognitive awareness of digital and online reading strategies discovered that they did not affect it as the mean value showed almost the same number (averagely M = 3.4) and indicated that all the group used digital and online reading strategies moderately in reading English web-novels on Wattpad. Finally, the findings about Wattpad features were also proposed; the researchers discovered that the interactive features of Wattpad (Direct Message and Comment) were not helpful with M = 2.51 and M = 2.23, respectively. However, for the description and the figure attachment feature, they admitted to use it in high frequency (M = 4.15), and medium frequency (M = 3.25) respectively

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