scholarly journals The Impact of Reciprocal Teaching on Pre-Service English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teachers’ Reading Comprehension Skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülten KOŞAR ◽  
Yunus Emre AKBANA
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Reciprocal Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

scholarly journals Science-Based Reading and its Effect on the Development of Reading Comprehension Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Ertan Miyanyedi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

A language is a living tool that allows people to communicate. Human beings learn a foreign language while preserving their language to maintain their vitality. S/he teaches his/her language on one hand while s/he learns a foreign language. Teaching Turkish as a foreign language needs to be reconsidered in the light of new developments. In this study, while introducing the “science-based reading approach,” the contribution of this approach to students’ reading comprehension skills and its effect on academic achievement were examined. Experimental and control groups were formed, and pre-test and post-test were administered to these groups in this study. Microsoft Excel and SPSS-21 software programs were used in the analysis of the data obtained from the achievement tests. While there was no difference between the experimental and control groups in pre-tests, a significant difference was found in the post-test achievement test of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group. Based on this result, it can be said that the science-based reading approach has a positive effect on students’ reading comprehension skills. It is expected from Turkish language teachers to conduct new researches with different groups to obtain more accurate results and to compare the results.

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.

The impact of using divergent thinking strategies on reading comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 78-99
Author(s):  
A. Al Masri ◽  
T. Krishan ◽  
F. Al Talahin ◽  
S. Almassarweh
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Thinking Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Experimental Group

Introduction. Divergent thinking strategies are based on brain activity represented by a series of successive and branching questions related to a particular reading text. These strategies stimulate the minds of sixth graders to think of new stimuli such as finding a solution to a specific problem, or making a specific judgment, or predicting future events, which produces new and innovative solutions and achieves a deeper understanding of the target reading text.The present research aims to investigate the impact of divergent thinking strategies in developing reading comprehension skills among sixth-grade students in the English language.Methodology and research methods. The authors used the quasi-experimental approach. A pre-post design was used to identify the effect of employing divergent thinking strategies in developing reading comprehension skills. The study sample consisted of 136 students, who were selected purposefully and distributed into two groups: experimental and control groups. Students in experimental group were taught using divergent thinking strategies. Students in control group were taught in the usual way.Results and scientific novelty. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) found statistically significant differences between the two groups in favour of the experimental group in achievement. In addition, significant differences were found in the Motivation for Learning English between the two groups. It was found that divergent thinking strategies stimulate students’ thinking through various questions and allow them to look at their familiar knowledge with a new vision, to produce and generate new ideas with creative features.Practical significance. The current study is useful in determining the appropriate reading comprehension skills for students, and targeting them in developing these skills. This research also draws the attention of teachers to the importance of including strategies compatible with the brain, including divergent thinking strategies, when planning reading lessons. As for the educational supervisors, it puts in their hand’s strategies based on the theory of learning in the brain, including the divergent thinking strategies and how to employ them in reading lessons in order to develop reading comprehension. Moreover, these research materials can be employed by mentors in directing teachers to depart from the framework of traditional methods through the use of divergent thinking strategies in their classroom teaching practices.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Metode Cooperative Integrated Reading And Composition (CIRC) Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Membaca Pemahaman Bahasa Arab Siswi Kelas VIII Aisyah Semester Genap Di SMP Quran Darul Fattah Bandar Lampung Tahun Pelajaran 2019/2020

An Naba ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Sutikno ◽  
Doni Sastrawan ◽  
Adam Sugiarto ◽  
Diah Asih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Academic Year

The Use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method to Enhance Arabic Reading Comprehension Skills for Students of VIII Aisyah Class in Even Semester at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School of Bandar Lampung in the 2019/2020 Academic Year   ABSTRACT Regarding the development of education that continues to change and for the sake of developing education quality, one of the elements that must be considered in the educational curriculum is a foreign language. In Indonesia, Arabic is a foreign language; in keeping with the need, the Arabic language is taught more seriously alongside knowledge teaching. Nevertheless, learning a foreign language (Arabic) is not as easy as learning the mother tongue. Some obstructions must be coped with, such as ashwat science, grammar, and vocabulary. In addition, difficulties also come from students or teachers themselves, learning methods, materials, and teaching facilities. Therefore, the author examines students' reading comprehension skills with the research title “The Use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method to Enhance Arabic Reading Comprehension Skills for Students of VIII Aisyah Class in Even Semester at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School of Bandar Lampung in the 2019/2020 Academic Year” The type of research employed was Classroom Action Research (CAR). This research was carried out at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School, Bandar Lampung, in Arabic class VIII subjects in the even semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. The study results revealed that using the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method could enhance students' Arabic reading comprehension skills as evidenced by the mean value obtained in the first cycle of 76.82, categorized as adequate. However, it experienced a slight decrease of 0.30 points, equivalent to 0.39% in the second cycle, to 76.52 categorized as adequate. After that, cycle III underwent a relatively good increase of 4.95 points or equivalent to 6.47% to 81.47, with a sufficient category.   Keywords: CIRC, Reading Comprehension Skill

The Impact of Scaffolding Strategies in Enhancing Reading Comprehension Skills of University Students in a Saudi Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Arwa Abdullah AbdulRahman Al Eissa ◽  
Abdullah Al-Bargi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Scaffolding Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills ◽  
Experimental Group

Based on a mixed method research design, this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of applying scaffolding strategies in enhancing reading comprehension skills of female students at King Abdulaziz University in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The participants of the study were thirty-three female students at the preparatory year program (PYP) who were registered at the proficiency level 104 (B1/Threshold level on the Common European Framework of reference for language; CEFR). They were divided into two groups: Seventeen students in the control group and sixteen students in the experimental group. Both groups were exposed to the same reading lessons but with the experimental group exposed to scaffolding strategies. Prior to the treatment, a pretest was administered to both groups. Once the treatment was accomplished, a posttest was administered to investigate the effect of applying scaffolding strategies on developing reading comprehension skills. Furthermore, qualitative data was collected via open-ended questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the pretest and posttest of the experimental group in favor of the posttest. Furthermore, students showed a positive attitude to the scaffolding technique as a motivation factor to their learning. Conclusions and recommendations for further research are given at the end of this study.

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