An Ethnography Research in Extensive Reading Course: Self – Questioning Strategy on Reading Comprehension Process

Abstract

This study aims to get an in-depth understanding of the self-questioning strategy on reading comprehension process. The reading skill is essentially complicated by many things, not just pronunciation, but also involving visual, thinking, psycholinguistic, and metacognitive activities. Research subjects are students of a fifth credits at the English Education Program UIN Raden Intan Lampung. Research design is qualitative research by using ethnography method. Qualitative research with ethnography method is intended to explain the cultural aspects of the implementation of self-questioning strategy in students' reading process of fifth credits in English education study program, UIN Raden Intan Lampung. The research found a unique cultural theme, namely, the use of self-questioning strategy in the process of reading comprehension of students with a pattern of activities that are interrelated and affect. The form of self-question in the process of understanding the reading of students is characterized by the many types of questions generated by students during the process of reading comprehension.