scholarly journals The Impact of Monolingual Dictionaries on Reading Comprehension among Sudanese English Majors

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 578
Author(s):  
Abuelgasim Abdelbagi Elhaj
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
The Poor ◽  
English Majors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

<p><em>Vocabulary is recognized as a central aspect of mastery of the language and the use of monolingual dictionaries is regarded as a crucial tool in determining meanings of words in reading exercises. This paper aims at exploring the effects of dictionaries on reading appreciation among Sudanese students. The reading comprehension test was a replication of the text used in an experiment by Nesi and Meara (1992). Its rationale is simple: since monolingual dictionaries are designed to help in reading comprehension, it is reasonable to assume that dictionary users will score significantly better than non-dictionary users. The study sample comprised 50 students from a Public Sudanese university, with half the students carrying out the test using monolingual dictionaries and the other half without this aid. Dictionary users were asked to tick the words they had looked up and to write down their meanings. The meanings selected were matched with the original context, and judgment was made as to whether the degree of correctness had affected the scores. The results indicate that no statistically significant differences exist between the two groups. This conclusion contradicts the bulk of research and the researcher proposes a number of explanations for this apparent failure. It is suggested that the poor reference skills of the subjects is the major responsible factor.</em></p>

scholarly journals An investigation into reading strategies used by Vietnamese non-English major students at Kien Giang University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Minh ◽  
Nguyen Thuy Nga
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Item Number ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
English Majors ◽  
English Major ◽  
Rating Item

This paper aimed at investigating the frequencies of reading strategies employed by Vietnamese non-English major students while taking a reading comprehension test at Kien Giang University. Data was collected through a questionnaire delivered to 117 sophomores who majored in Economics, Accounting and Construction at Kien Giang University. The results from the descriptive statistics showed that Vietnamese non-English majors were medium strategy users. Of the three types of reading strategies, cognitive strategies were the most frequently used, followed by metacognitive and support reading strategies. Out of 27 reading strategies, students reportedly used item number 14 “I read the text again for better understanding.” at the highest frequency while rating item number 2 “I determined what the type of the text is.” the least frequency.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF TRANSLANGUAGING APPROACH ON TEACHING ARABIC READING IN A MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOM

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saidna Zulfiqar Bin-Tahir ◽  
Ummu Saidah ◽  
Nuril Mufidah ◽  
Riki Bugis
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Written Test ◽  
Multilingual Classroom ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

 The study aimed at measuring the effect of translanguaging approach in teaching Arabic reading comprehension to the second semester students of Indonesian Education Department, Universitas Iqra Buru. 64 students involved as the participants through simple random sampling technique. 32 students participated in each of the experimental and control group. The researchers used reading test of written test to obtain information about the students’ achievemnt in reading on the use of translanguaging approach and it was distributed to the respondents after the last treatment given. To find out the mean score, standard deviation and the t-test value between the pretest and the posttest the researchers used the SPSS 17 program. The researchers found that the use of translanguaging approach in learning Arabic reading comprehension improves the students’ ability of Arabic reading comprehension is better than the conventional method.

scholarly journals Improving students’ reading comprehension achievement through question generation strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Meti Yulistia ◽  
Kiki Rizki Amelia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Question Generation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Group Reading ◽  
Comprehension Tests ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Better Than

This study was aimed to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between students who were taught by using the Question Generation strategy and that of those who were not. In conducting the study, question generation strategy was used in the experimental group, but the control group did not get any treatment. Sixty students were assigned in two groups, with 30 students in the experimental group and the other 30 students in the control group. Reading comprehension tests was used in collecting the data. Data were analyzed using a t-test. The findings of the study showed that the question generation strategy could improve students’ reading achievement better than and those who were not. Therefore, the question generation strategy was helpful to aid students to understand the reading text

scholarly journals Penerapan Metode Al Qiroah Untuk Meningkatkan Pemahaman Membaca Pada Pelajaran Bahasa Arab Di SMP

An Naba ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Muhammad Singgih
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Learning By Using

This research is based on the poor ability of students to understand Arabic texts and the lack of interest in reading that is owned by students. So, the students have difficulty in understanding Arabic lessons. The problem in this research is "Is the Al-Qiroah method able to improve reading comprehension in Arabic languageand how to increase the use of the Al-Qira'ah method in reading comprehension in Arabic class lessons VII A HafshohDarul Fattah Qur'an Middle School? " while the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of the Al-Qira’ah method on reading comprehension in Arabic class VII A Hafshoh Middle School Qur'an Darul Fattah and to describe the increased use of the Al-Qira’ahmethod in reading comprehension in Arabic class VII A Hafshoh Middle School Qur'an Darul Fattah. The type of research that researchers use is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research is class VII AHafshoh Middle School Qur'an Darul Fattah amounting to 27 students. This research was conducted in two cycles and each cycle has four learning meetings. In this research, the average value of the students reading comprehension test in the pretest was 60.72, in the first cycle was 66.60 and in the second cycle was 82.02, with the difference in the increase in the pretest to the first cycle increasing by 5.88 points or equivalent to 9.68%. Meanwhile the first cycle to the second cycle increased by 15.42 points or equivalent to 23.15%. It can be concluded that learning by using the Al-Qiro’ah method can improve reading comprehension in Arabic class VII A Hafshoh students at Darul Fattah Qur'an Middle School.

Tushaar Shah. Catalysing Co-operation: Design of Self-governing Organisations. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1996. 315 pages. Hardbound. Indian Rs 295.00.

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-213
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abrar Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Organisational Structures ◽  
Better Than

Within the different types of organisational structures available, it is generally believed that co-operative organisations serve the poor better than the other available alternatives. This belief is based on the fact that these organisations are usually owned and controlled by the people and their objective is to provide services instead of making profits. They are, therefore, considered an important instrument for equitable development, and have been given a prominent role in the national development strategies in many developing countries. It is surprising, however, that the performance of cooperatives is not as satisfactory as it could have been. They have met with only occasional success in Asia. This book explores the causes of this failure.

scholarly journals Newspaper Reading Comprehension Development through Vocabulary or Structure Instruction

IJOHMN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Samane Naderi ◽  
Ali Fazilatfar
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Comprehension Development ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Structure Instruction ◽  
First Session

The purpose of this study is investigating the effect of specific vocabularies and structures instruction on the upper intermediate EFL learners’ newspaper reading comprehension development. For this purpose, fifty four female upper intermediate EFL learners were selected and randomly assigned in three groups each consisting of eighteen learners, two experimental and one control. At the first session,a researcher-made newspaper reading comprehension test was applied as the pretest. The learners of one experimental group received instruction of newspaper structures and the other one received related vocabularies instruction and the control one received just translation of newspaper content by the teacher. In the last session, another researcher-made comprehension test was administered for three groups as the post test. The findings indicate thatstructure instruction is significantly the most beneficial one and the mere translation of newspaper content is the least beneficial in developing learner's newspaper reading comprehension.The results of interviews confirmed the study findings as well.

scholarly journals Graphics and Listening Comprehension

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Ruhe
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
College Level ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Better Than

How effective are graphics as lecture comprehension supports for low-proficiency ESL listeners? In an experiment conducted with 103 college-level Asian students, a group that heard an audiotape while looking at a page with an organizational graphic performed better on a comprehension test than a control group (no words or graphics provided), whereas the participants in two vocabulary conditions (one with vocabulary from the lecture listed in alphabetical order and the other with vocabulary listed in the order in which the words occurred in the text of the mini-lectures) performed no better than the control group. The findings indicate that the graphics enhanced listening comprehension. Suggestions for using graphics to teach academic listening skills are provided.

scholarly journals DISTRIBUSI ZAKAT UNTUK GOLONGAN FAQIR UZUR PADA LEMBAGABAITUL MAL DI ACEH

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
. Ida Friatna
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Group ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This is an obligation to a certain Muslim who meet the requirement to pay zaka. In the other side, the government needs to operate an authorized institution to manage this kind of alms, including infaq and other Muslim’s alms. Int this case, the government of Aceh has established a kind of Islamic treasury office named Baitul Mal which mandated to preserve, manage, and develop the zaka, infaq, waqf, and other alms in Islam, including the preservation of Islamic custody. This study examines the zaka distribution by Baitul Mal office to the old poor beneficiary group. Islam basically distinguishes between miskin and faqir based on their different level, where the faqr is they are in a poorer condition. Currently, the Baitul Mal office separates the poor group into two types, namely the old poor (Faqir uzur) and the normal poor (Non-old faqir). The old poor is defined as people with old age, long sickness, and permanent disable, or with other condition they become not productive. The catagorization has consequences to the distribution portion. The Baitul Mal decided monthly consumptive distribution to the old poor group and to the normal poor is also giving incidentally by the consumptive method. This arrangement is aimed to be a guidance for all the Baitul Mal around the regencies level in targeting those types of faqr. So, here are main questions why do the Baitul Mal make this distinction and what is the impact to both type of faqr life. This study found that the Baitul mal wanted to be committed to elevating the faqr life through zaka distribution, especially to the faqr uzur that considered unproductive people and the distribution was chosen by consumptive way. This study learned that the Baitul Mal also considered to distributing part of zaka productively. The study uses the literatures and also the Baitul Mal official data.Keywords: zaka distribution, faqr uzur, Baitul Mal

scholarly journals A Performance Study of the Impact of Different Perturbation Methods on the Efficiency of GVNS for Solving TSP

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Papalitsas ◽  
Karakostas ◽  
Andronikos
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Perturbation Methods ◽  
Traveling Salesman ◽  
The Other ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Benchmark Instances ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

The purpose of this paper is to assess how three shaking procedures affect the performanceof a metaheuristic GVNS algorithm. The first shaking procedure is generally known in the literatureas intensified shaking method. The second is a quantum-inspired perturbation method, and thethird is a shuffle method. The GVNS schemes are evaluated using a search strategy for both Firstand Best improvement and a time limit of one and two minutes. The formed GVNS schemes wereapplied on Traveling Salesman Problem (sTSP, nTSP) benchmark instances from the well-knownTSPLib. To examine the potential advantage of any of the three metaheuristic schemes, extensivestatistical analysis was performed on the reported results. The experimental data shows that for aTSPinstances the first two methods perform roughly equivalently and, in any case, much better thanthe shuffle approach. In addition, the first method performs better than the other two when usingthe First Improvement strategy, while the second method gives results quite similar to the third.However, no significant deviations were observed when different methods of perturbation were usedfor Symmetric TSP instances (sTSP, nTSP).

scholarly journals The Impact of the Fiscal Policy on Income and the Consumption of the Poor Households in Morocco: An Analysis with a Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
El Moussaoui Mohamed ◽  
Mohamed Karim
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
General Equilibrium Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the effects of the fiscal policy on income and the consumption of the poor households in urban and rural areas. The evaluation of this impact is carried out by the use of a real and static Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM) in open economy and with government. The Social Accounting Matrix of the year 2013 is used for the supposed simulations.The results obtained show clearly that 50% direct tax reduction in income for the urban poor households and 100% for the rural ones make it possible to increase significantly the disposable income of these households as well as improving their consumption. On the other hand, the other policies such as exempting the agricultural and food commodities from the indirect tax, combined with 20% increase in this tax for the industrial products and the private services, or the exemption of the agricultural and food products from the customs duties, do not have a positive effect on the income and the consumption of the poor households.

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