The Effectiveness of Using WebQuest on Enhancing EFL Reading Comprehension Skills and Cultural Awareness of Experimental Secondary School Students

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Desouky Ali
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

scholarly journals The Effects of Morphological Awareness on EFL Secondary School Students’ Reading Comprehension Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Dalal Yahya Ali Al-Haydan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Experimental Group

This exploratory study examines the impacts of morphological awareness on Saudi female secondary school students’ reading comprehension skills. In particular, it examines the effects of increasing students’ morphological awareness on their reading comprehension skills. Participants included 58 Saudi female secondary school students, who were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group was taught using a morphemic analysis strategy during their reading classes, whereas the control group attended their usual reading comprehension classes. Pretests and post-tests were prepared to determine the effect of raising students’ awareness of morphological knowledge on their reading comprehension skills. The results indicated a strong positive correlation between the students’ morphological awareness and the improvement of their reading comprehension skills in the post-test. The study, therefore, confirms that the direct instruction of prefixes, suffixes and base words is useful and should be emphasised when teaching because it significantly increases students’ morphological awareness.

scholarly journals A proposed strategy effectiveness of teaching literary texts based on the assumptions of NLP in developing reading comprehension levels and improving reading self-efficacy for second-grade secondary students

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-107
Author(s):  
بليغ حمدي إسماعيل عبد القادر
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Experimental Group

This current research aims to measure the effectiveness of using a proposed strategy for teaching literary texts based on the main assumptions of NLP in developing reading comprehension levels and improving reading self-efficacy for second-grade students, and to achieve this goal the researcher has prepared a list of reading comprehension levels and their behavioral indicators (Skills) required for second year secondary school students, as well as the appropriate reading self dimensions for secondary school students related to literary texts, and the researcher prepared a test that measures reading levels of comprehension, and a measure of the dimensions of the reading self, As well as preparing student worksheets and a teacher’s guide explaining how to use the proposed strategy. The results revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the scores of the control group in the test of post-comprehension reading and the dimensional reading self-measure in favor of the experimental group. The results also indicated the effectiveness of using the proposed strategy based on hypotheses of NLP in developing reading comprehension levels and improving The dimensions of the reading self of the experimental group students.

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