EFL UNDERGRADUATES’ JOURNAL ARTICLE PREFERENCES AND ACADEMIC READING STRATEGIES
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This paper investigates the preferred criteria EFL undergraduates
in an Indonesian University use for journal article selection and the strategies
they employed for the reading of the articles. Five final year students were
interviewed to collect pertinent data. Using semi-structured interview
technique, the findings suggests that the main criterion for journal article
selection is its similarity with their research topics. In addition to this, they
also consider journal reputation as well as ease of access. Their preferences
might be partially influenced by prior instruction from lecturers in relevant
courses. In terms of reading strategies, they reported they did not read the
whole article whilst focusing on certain structure such as abstract, findings,
and conclusion. These strategies are mainly cognitive and overlook the
metacognitive ones. Therefore, teachers are suggested to scaffold the reading
journal articles to foster critical thinking and evaluation of the selected
articles as well as metacognitive awareness to construct arguments from the
texts.
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