scholarly journals Word Recognition and Reading Skills to Improve Reading Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayra Yadira Chamba ◽  
Maria Rossana Ramirez-Avila
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Private Language ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Average Improvement ◽  
Steady Improvement ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Learning Logs

This research aimed at showing the influence of word recognition, and using skimming and scanning skills to improve reading comprehension. Participants were a group of 15 students whose ages ranged from 14 to 16. They had problems in reading comprehension and vocabulary.  This action research was conducted at a private language institute. The instruments to collect data were pre- and post-surveys, pre- post-tests, learning logs, skimming and scanning forms, and an interview. They provided quantitative and qualitative information. Results showed that there was a statistically significant improvement in parts of speech knowledge from the pre- to the post-test. The result was an average improvement of 28.2% in student performance. Cohen’s d was calculated with a result of 1.09 which means there is impact in learning. There was also a steady improvement in skimming and scanning which was exemplified by the ability to correctly complete a form after reading texts. Lastly, students’ perspectives were positive to this innovation. Therefore, it is advisable to apply the same innovation with other learners in order to compare results of improvement of reading comprehension and overall proficiency.

scholarly journals Mobile-based Interactive Media in Remedial Reading Instruction

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Alona Medalia Gabejan ◽  
Eñego B. Tejas, Jr. ◽  
Kristine Harion G. Lacanaria
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Remedial Reading ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Frustration Level

This study investigated if there would be a significant effect of using mobile-based interactive media on the word recognition and comprehension of Grade-7 students who underwent remedial reading classes because they were identified as non-readers or belonging to the frustration level of reading comprehension.  It employed a standardized reading test in administering the pre-test and post-test among the students before and after utilizing the said interactive media, respectively. The test included word recognition (oral) and comprehension (written) tests to determine the reading ability of the students. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the students both for word recognition and comprehension. The use of mobile-based interactive media was found effective in enhancing the reading skills of students, even for those students who were already in Grade-7 and those who belonged to the Frustration Level of reading comprehension. The study recommended that a longer period of time could be allotted for remedial reading instructions while using mobile-based interactive media and that interviews could be used as a follow-up strategy in ascertaining the improvement of students’ reading skills.

THE USE OF E-BOOK TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION AMONG YEAR 4 PUPILS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Yee Bee Choo ◽  
Nurul Syazana Zainuddin
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Reflective Journal ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Level Of Motivation

This is an Action Research of using the Story Jumper as an E-book to improve the reading comprehension among Year 4 pupils in one of the primary schools in Malaysia. The participants involved were twenty pupils consisting of seven males and thirteen females. Three data collection methods employed were pre-test and post-test, pupils’ work and teacher’s reflective journal. The findings showed that the use of E-book had increased the level of understanding in reading comprehension among the research participants. The mean for the pre-test and post-test had increased from 45.83 to 93.33. The pupils’ work indicated positive improvements in terms of their level of understanding and responses in reading. It was also found from the reflective journal that the research participants had participated actively in the learning process and their level of motivation was also increased. The implication is to use E-book in the teaching of reading skills among the primary school learners.

Factorial and Predictive Validity of First Graders' Scores on the Early Reading Screening Instrument

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Perney ◽  
Darrell Morris ◽  
Stamey Carter
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Screening Instrument ◽  
Moderate Amount ◽  
School Year

The factorial and predictive validity of the Early Reading Screening Instrument was examined for 105 first grade students. Analysis indicated that the test is unidimensional and can predict first grade reading skills at the end of the school year with at least a moderate amount of accuracy. A previous study indicated predictive validity coefficients of .66 and .73 when the criteria were word recognition and reading comprehension. The current study yielded predictive validity coefficients of .67 and .70 for these criteria.

scholarly journals Developing the Students' Reading Comprehension through Interactive Approaches by Using Short Stories (An Experimental Research at South Aceh Polytechnic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Hasbaini Kluet ◽  
Amsar Yunan ◽  
Asmaidi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Teaching Models ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test

This research was conducted to see the effectiveness of using short stories in teaching reading comprehension. The teaching model was used an interactive approach to be developed the reading skills of second semester students at the Department of Computer Engineering, South Aceh Polytechnic. The reading ability of students was explored and to be found the right teaching model, then the aspects of the ability to be seen was understanding the meaning of words, sentence intentions, information, problems, opinions, recommendations, sentence structure, analysis and communication and student responses after the application of the teaching model in the classroom. After treatment, there was an increase in students' reading comprehension skills especially in the experimental class after using short story teaching materials with interactive approach teaching models to obtain an average value of pre-test = 55, and post-test = 77.67. Whereas in the control class only got a pre-test value = 49,64 and post-test = 67,86. Then there was a significant difference in the scores of the two classes in the post-test scores (77,67-67,86) namely 9,81. Meanwhile, from questionnaire data, 87% of students responded very well and the remaining 13% responded well to the use of short stories with interactive approach teaching models. As well as answering enough options and less as much as 0%. From the responded above, which has helped develop student confidence, collaboration, self-ability and group work. Of course this research was far from perfection and needs to be improved in the future with other teaching methods, while still providing motivation to students to continue to be improved their learning, especially reading skills. So from the results of this simple study it can be recommended that, the use of short stories in teaching comprehension reading with interactive approach models got a significant increase in students' ability in reading comprehension than conventional learning models.

scholarly journals PENGARUH STRATEGI METAKOGNISI TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN MEMBACA TEKS BERBENTUK DESKRIPTIF PADA MAHASISWA MANAJEMEN INFORMASI KESEHATAN INSTITUT KESEHATAN DELI HUSADA DELITUA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Herawati Br Bukit ◽  
Sulastri Br Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Grade Ii ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Experimental Group

Doing reading comprehension needs active process in doing. The suitable teaching-learning process must achieve the objective of reading comprehension. In fact, reading skill is not easy. Lecturer should use good strategy in teaching about reading comprehension. It also happens for students that they find some hard in doing reading comprehension well. They can’t get good value for understanding the text meaning. So, the strategy is very useful to solve the difficulties in reading comprehension. This study is concerned with the reading effect about descriptive text through Metacognition strategy application. This study learns about students reading skills in descriptive text. This research is conducted based on experimental quantitative design which has two randomized subject. The population were Health Information Management students at Deli Husada Deli Tua Health Institute grade I, II and III. The random sample was taken from grade I and III as group of experimental and grade II as the control group. In every group was given pre-test and post-test in same test but the experimental group accepted the treatment of Metacognition strategy in the study. The result of this research showed that there was difference between the mean of the group of experimental and the group of control. The statistic calculation showed that t-observed (4.1) is higher than t-table (1.67) for the degree of freedom (df) 58 at the level α = 0.05 level of significance. It proves that Metacognition strategy has significantly effect on students’ reading comprehension in reading descriptive text.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTING DIRECT METHOD BY USING GAMES TO IMPROVE EFL STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Putri Dini Meutia ◽  
A. Halim Majid ◽  
Sufiah Nafisah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Direct Method ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
T Score ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Second Year

Reading skill is one of the aspects of the foreign language which need to be master by the students. Thus it needed an appropriate method to improve the students' reading skills, especially reading comprehension. Therefore, the researchers conducted the study by using the Direct Method to improve reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the Direct Method by using games can improve the students' reading comprehension. The sample was taken from the second-year students of MAN Sibreh consisted of 25 students. The experiment was conducted in four meetings. In collecting the data, this study used pre-test and post-test as the research instruments. The pre-test was given in the first meeting while the post-test was given in the last meeting. After analyzing the data, the obtained t-score is 3,92. It indicates that there are significant differences between pre-test and post-test. Moreover, the critical value of t for the degree of freedom was 2,06 at the level significance of 5% (0,05). Thus, the t-score (3,92) is higher than the t-table (2,06). Therefore, the hypothesis is accepted.

scholarly journals Impact of Using Parallel Text Strategy on Teaching Reading to Intermediate II Level Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Andira Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Parallel Text ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of parallel reading text (English and Arabic) on English as a Foreign language (EFL) Intermediate II level students’ at Birzeit University in terms of reading comprehension, vocabulary retention, and sentence structure awareness. The sample for this study is 38 undergraduate students of the aforementioned level in two class sections during the fall semester of 2019-2020. One reading text from the course textbook was selected for this experimental study. The controlled group was instructed with an English only reading text while the experimental group used a parallel text of the same reading passage. A pretest on the reading text was used as an instrument to measure the reading skills of vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sentence structure prior to teaching the text for both sections. Six weeks later, a post-test was administered to both groups to assess the impact of parallel reading text in comparison to monolingual English text on students’ reading skills. Results of the post-test showed an increase in the average scores of both groups. There was a noticeable increase of the average scores in the vocabulary section and sentence structure awareness of the post-test among students of the experimental group compared to the average scores of their peers in the controlled group. Nevertheless, the results did not reveal a significant difference between using the two techniques in regard to reading comprehension and sentence structure awareness.

scholarly journals The Effect of Summarizing Narrative Texts to Improve Reading Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. PRESS
Author(s):  
Maria Rossana Ramirez-Avila ◽  
Jahaira Paola Barreiro
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
School Students ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Crucial Information ◽  
Learning Logs

This study demonstrates the effect of summaries of narrative texts to improve reading comprehension. This study consisted of sixty elementary school students who had evident reading comprehension deficiencies, especially in narrative texts. This study is a pre-experimental study with a mixed design. Qualitative and quantitative instruments were applied to meet the purpose of this study. The instruments included pretest and post-test, rubric, learning log, survey, a checklist to measure the students’ development and progress, and their perspectives towards this innovation. Results indicated an improvement in students’ reading comprehension. Post-test means increased from 5.96 in the pretest to 9.10. The checklist also proved that students included the required elements in their summaries. Students indicated in the learning logs that they would extend this strategy to other subjects, and they had to reread and identify the most crucial information to summarize.  The study has implications for teachers and learners since it can bring positive considerations about the importance of using summaries to improve reading comprehension.

scholarly journals Developing Narrative Text-Based Module for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Focus on Practicality

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Safriyani Novitri
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
English Department ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Post Test

This paper shows the function of a narrative text-based module to develop students reading skills. The research design is R & D (Research and Development), focusing on students' practicality. The researcher tried to find out the analysis and the practicality of the module in designing and implementing reading in a narrative text based-module. The sample was selected from second-semester students at the English Department of FKIP UIR. The students were given a test to be answered to find out the practicality, which consisted of pre-test and post-test. The module provides exercises that encourage the students to develop their reading comprehension. This module combines summary and references in every unit of the module. This module provides a formative test with an answer key at the end of each chapter.

scholarly journals لترقية قدرة الطالبات على فهم المقروء بمعهد إنسان قرآني آتشيه بسار Quantum Reading تطبيق أسلوب

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Nurul Izzah Febilia ◽  
Buhori Muslim ◽  
Tarmizi Ninoersy
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
T Test ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
P Value ◽  
Second Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Reading Teaching

Reading is an important element in the process of learning Arabic and is one of the language skills. Reading helps students to absorb knowledge and increase interest in writing. Then qiraah can improve students' knowledge with vocabulary, sentences, and editors that can be used in speaking and writing skills. The fahmul maqruk is one of the subjects in the Insan Qur'ani boarding school which aims to enrich students in understanding the reading text. Through observations that the researchers did, it was found that second grade students of the senior high school did not yet master Arabic, especially reading skills. They can read Arabic texts, but do not understand it and are they are unable to answer quetions in the book text. Although the teacher has explained them some of the vocubulary in the book related to the text. This study aims to find out response of teacher and students at Insan Qur’ani Islamic Boarding School in teaching the language using this model and to find out the effectiveness of Quantum Reading model implementation to improve students in reading comprehension. The research method of this study is experimental research. Researcher conducted this study in a group called “One Group Pre-Test Post Test Design”. The result of this research is the teacher and students response in reading teaching using this model is excellent with the achievement of observation value of teacher activity is P = 87,5% between 81-100% with excellent category and observation value of students activity is P = 82,5% between 81-100% with excellent category too. And the aplication of this model effectuve to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension, the proof is that the value of T-test with p -value  sig. (2-tailed) is smaller than the value of alpha ⍺ = 0,05 or (T-test < ⍺ = 0,05) with value is (0,000 < 0,05).

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