Extensive reading can develop students' reading comprehension, Extensive
Reading can improve students' reading skills and students' motivation to read.
Reading is a window of knowledge that will open a very broad knowledge to the
reader. Reading has a very important social role in human life. reading can enrich
ideas, and enrich information. The more someone reads, the wider the horizon of
thinking. Reading is an important part of the process of getting information in
learning.
This research describe about extensive reading. The main problem in this
research are: 1) what the strategi in reading journal? 2) how are the student
perception of using strategi in reading journal? the purpose of this study to know to
know the extensive reading strategies in reading journal used by students and to
know student perception of using extensive reading strategies.
The qualitative research was used case studies in this research. A case study is
an in-depth study of an individual, a group, an organization, an activity program,
and so on at a certain time. The goal is to get a complete description. The sample
of this study were 33 students, collected through and interview.
The result of this study showed based on this study the researcher found
strategies used by the students in extensive reading journals are previewing, fast
reading and take notes, and the perception of student are previewing can motivate
them to read it, and they said its more accurate and increase the ability to
understand, fast reading fast reading can seem like a daunting task, especially since
it can take a long time, take notes student has used take notes because it can make
it easier for them to remember.