scholarly journals The effect of Content and Language Integrated Learning on the development of English reading comprehension skills

Lenguaje ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-452
Author(s):  
Jaumer Andrés Quintana Aguilera ◽  
Daniela Restrepo Castro ◽  
Gonzalo Romero ◽  
Gustavo Adolfo Cárdenas Messa
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Observation Protocol ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

This action-research study analyzed the effect of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on the development of reading comprehension skills in English of 21 students of eleventh-grade in Colombia. A diagnostic test and the Survey of Reading Strategies were administered in class in order to establish the students’ level of reading comprehension in English and the reading strategies they used. A series of interventions to develop reading skills were carried out through instructional material based on the CLIL approach. The data was collected using qualitative instruments, such as the researcher’s field journal, an observation protocol and a focus group. Initially, students used very few or no reading comprehension strategies effectively. Moreover, they had poor performance in reading comprehension tests. After the implementation, the students demonstrated a more controlled and monitored use of their comprehension strategies that significantly influenced the development of their reading ability.

Reading Comprehension Strategies for Students With Learning Disabilities Who Are Emergent Bilingual

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Suheyla Sarisahin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Emergent Bilingual ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Students With Ld ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

Teachers of students with learning disabilities (LD) who also are emergent bilingual (EB) are tasked with meeting students’ individual learning needs and developing academic language. Teachers require specialized knowledge in second-language acquisition and the specific learning strategies to support students’ learning disabilities. Reading comprehension skills are the foundational skills that students with LD who are EB most often need to improve. When working with students, research-based reading strategies to support their reading comprehension skills are critical, but must also support students’ developing English proficiency. This article identifies research-based reading comprehension strategies supportive of developing English proficiency that may be implemented for students with LD who are EB in the elementary grade levels. A self-evaluation tool is provided to guide teachers in helping their students to improve their reading comprehension skills while supporting their language development.

scholarly journals Reading Comprehension Strategies among EFL Learners in Higher Learning Institutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Hamza Al-Jarrah ◽  
Nur Salina binti Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Learning Institutions

A variety of reading strategies are required to comprehend reading materials. Without effective reading strategies, students mostly face reading comprehension difficulties. This study aims to investigate reading comprehension strategies among English foreign language (EFL) learners in higher learning institutions. The study employed qualitative method and 10 Arab students of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) were interviewed. Inductive thematic approach was used to analyze data. The findings indicates that the most commonly used reading strategies among the EFL learners are logical knowledge (under linguistic schema), formal construction (under formal schema), cultural knowledge (under cultural schema), and prior knowledge and conceptual knowledge (under content schema). This study concludes that reading strategies help the EFL learners in understanding English reading materials. To improve reading strategies for EFL learners, there is a need for collective effort of English language teachers, curriculum designers, educationists, education policy makers, and the EFL learners themselves.

scholarly journals Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, and Translation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Gabriella Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Intercultural Mediators ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

AbstractTranslators and language teachers are cultural and intercultural mediators, facilitators of intercultural transfers and border crossings between cultures. The abilities to understand, interpret, and produce written texts appropriately play an essential role in these professions. In the process of translation, source-language texts have to be understood and translated using the most appropriate target-language equivalents. Reading skills and awareness of reading strategies are equally essential for language teachers, who are expected to guide language learners in developing these skills. In this study, we intend to examine the reading habits and reading strategies used by a group of Hungarian translator and teacher trainees when dealing with texts written in English. Their reading comprehension performance will be assessed with a test and compared with their ability to translate English texts into Hungarian. Based on the literature and our personal experience in language teaching, teacher training, and translator training, we assume that students preparing for the above mentioned professions have a well-developed reading strategy awareness and that their reading comprehension skills in English strongly influence the ability to translate texts into their native language.

scholarly journals The Contributions of Reading Strategies and Reading Frequencies toward Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 593-597
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Scale Reading ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Comprehension Skill ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

This study was conducted because of the low level of students’ reading skill. The reading strategies and the reading frequencies were assumed as the factors affecting students’ reading skill. The aim of this study was to describe and to analyze the contribution of reading strategies and reading frequencies toward students’ reading comprehension skill. This study used the quantitative method with the descriptive correlational design. The population was 3000 students who attended Bahasa Indonesia subject in Universitas Negeri Padang, and 353 students were taken as samples by using proportional stratified random sampling. The instruments of this study were reading strategies scale, reading frequencies scale and a reading comprehension test which has been valid and reliable. Based on research findings and discussion, the following can be concluded: (1) reading strategies contributed significance and positively to the students' comprehension reading skill which is 19.6% (R = 0.443 R2 = 0.196 and p = 0.000), i.e. reading strategies contributed directly toward the skills of reading comprehension. Therefore, the higher the reading strategies, the better the reading comprehension skills of the students; (2) reading strategies contributed significance toward the students' reading comprehension skills of 33.1% (R = 0.575 R2 = 0.331 and p = 0.000), i.e. reading frequencies contributed directly to reading comprehension skills. Therefore, the better the reading frequencies, the better the reading comprehension skills of the students; (3) reading strategies and the reading frequencies together contributed significance toward the students' reading comprehension skills of 33.2% (R = 0.575, R2 = 0.332 and p = 0.000), i.e. reading strategies and reading frequencies together contributed directly to the comprehension reading skill. Therefore, the higher the reading strategies and reading frequencies will be the better the reading comprehension skill of the students.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ READING STRATEGIES AT ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Utami Dewi ◽  
Maryati Salmiah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
University Students ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading comprehension is one of the skills that students must have to enrich their knowledge, especially university students. There are two kinds of reading strategies: Top – Down strategy and Bottom – Up Strategy. The aim of this research is to find information about students’ reading comprehension strategies that were applied by the students when they were given reading comprehension text. The research design was qualitative approach. The informants consisted of ten English educational department students, one reading subject lecturer and the head of English educational department. Interview and observation were the major sources of the data to find out the students’ strategies on reading comprehension. Based on those data, it was found that most of the students applied bottom – up strategies in reading comprehension texts

scholarly journals Development of reading comprehension strategies for the high school Icfes (Supérate) tests, eleventh grade

Sophia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Alejandro Toro Criollo ◽  
Rosana Ramírez Toro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Positive Performance ◽  
Post Test ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Teresa De Jesus

This article presents the results of an action research entitled “Development of Reading Comprehension Strategies for the high school Icfes (Supérate) tests, eleventh grade.” This pre-experimental research was carried out with a group of eleventh grade of the Santa Teresa de Jesús school in the city of Armenia, Quindío. The students had a poor level of comprehension of texts in English. This type of study requires a pre-test and a post-test, the former served as a means to evaluate the performance of the students in real tests, followed by a training course on more convenient reading strategies for the type of questions used in the high school Icfes (Supérate) tests, eleventh grade (ISG11, for its initials in Spanish)*. The post-test measured their performance after having finished their training in reading strategies. The purpose of this research was to improve their performance in the analysis of English texts, and to measure how training affects the performance of students in the ISG11 tests. It is concluded from this study that the reading workshops improved the students’ ability to understand readings as well as the degree of familiarity with the English section of the ISG11 tests. This research provides a guide to train students in how to answer this type of test. It was demonstrated that with the training in reading comprehension and recognition of the type of items present in the English session of the ISG11 tests, students are better prepared to overcome their difficulties. As a result of this, the students had a positive performance in the real ISG11 tests, raising for the first time in five years the level of English in the institution.

scholarly journals KORELASI KETERAMPILAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN DAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS TEKS EKSPOSISI SISWA KELAS X SMA NEGERI 1 PADANG PANJANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Kekeh Naluri ◽  
Emidar Emidar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Text Writing

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to describe reading comprehension skills, exposition text writing skills, and correlation reading comprehension skills and exposition text writing skills of class X students of Padang Panjang High School. The results of this study are three, namely (1) reading comprehension skills of students of class X exposition in SMA Negeri 1 Padang Panjang are in good qualifications, with an average value (80.68), (2) writing skills of students exposition writing class X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Panjang is in good qualifications  with an average grade (82.52), (3) there is a relationship between reading ability and writing exposition text skills in class X students of SMA Negeri 1 Padang Panjang, with degrees freedom n-1 at a 95% confidence level. T value (14.79) is greater than t table (0.168), that is tcount> t table (14.79> 1.68) so H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted because the test results prove that t count is greater than t table. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the reading comprehension skills of the exposition text correlated with the writing skills of the exposition text. The better the reading comprehension skills of exposition text, the better the writing skills of exposition text. Kata Kunci: Korelasi, Keterampilan Membaca Pemahaman, Keterampilan Menulis Teks Eksposisi   

scholarly journals Improving the Reading Ability of Students Using the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method in Class IV SDN 3 Cilangkap

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Heni Ratnasari ◽  
Riga Zahara Nurani ◽  
Winarti Dwi Febriani
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Core ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Core Activity

<em>This study aims to improve students' reading comprehension skills by using the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method. This research method was conducted in 3 cycles using a classroom action research design belonging to Kemmis and Mc Taggart. In implementing this research, the steps of the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method are used, which are divided into three stages, namely the opening activity, the core activity, and the closing activity. The results of the research in the first cycle obtained an average value of 78.6 with the percentage of students who had completed 70% and those who had not completed were 30%. Furthermore, in the second cycle an average score of 85.5 was obtained with the percentage of students who had completed 90% and those who had not completed were 10%. Meanwhile, in cycle III, an average score of 89.8 was obtained with the percentage of students who completed 100%. The results obtained, namely the Cooperative Integrated Reading And Composition (CIRC) method can improve reading comprehension skills of fourth grade students of SDN 3 Cilangkap, Tasikmalaya Regency.</em>

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