The Effect of Reading Strategies and Speed Reading on Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of reading strategy and speed reading on students reading comprehension skill. The population were 4996 students. Further, 370 students were selected using the technique proportional stratified random sampling. The instrument of this study were a Likert scale questionnaire and reading comprehension. The data obtained have been analyzed by simple regresions and multiple regresions. The result was the effects reading strategies and speed reading on reading is and positive and significance in reading comprehensions skill.The results of this study show that (1) there is a effect contribution to the reading strategies toward reading comprehension skills by 24,2% (sig. 0,000), (2) there is a contribution of the speed reading toward reading comprehension skills by 30,7% (sig. 0,000, and (3) there is a contribution of the reading strategies and speed reading on the students' reading comprehension skills by 18,85% (sig. 0,000).