Investigating EFL Students’ Autonomous Learning in Reading ActivityDuring Online Learning

Abstract

This study was aimed at finding out how EFL students’ reading activities during online learning and the factors influence their reading activity. The subject of this study are five English Education Department students of University Islam Malang. They were chosen by their experience in online reading class. The instrument of collecting data were used interview and questionnaire. Then, the data were analyzed descriptively. The result of this study showed the most preference students’ reading activity was reading English article and e-book from lecturer. Reading through application such as Quora, reading English novel, reading through social media, such as reading caption in Instagram and reading English subtitle were the next preference reading activity. Those activities were encouraged by the reading strategies that used by them. The internal factor found in contributing to development of EFL students’ reading autonomy were knowledge, skills, motivation and confidence while the external factors were parents, siblings, environment, reading lecturer and technology.All in all, the reseacher suggested to the next researcher to obtain more creative ways of autonomous learning in English reading, a more in-depth approach and a larger number of respondents are required. Keywords: Autonomous Learning, Reading Skill, Online Learning.