scholarly journals An Examination of the Metacognitive Reading Strategies Used by Native Speakers of Arabic When Reading in English and Arabic

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Negmeldin O. Alsheikh ◽  
Kouider Mokhtari
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Metacognitive Reading Strategies ◽  
Advanced Proficiency

This study examined the metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension strategies used by advanced proficiency ESL readers whose native language is Arabic. The study looked at the perceived use of reading strategies by Arabic native speakers in Arabic and English and their actual use of these strategies in reading academic texts in the two languages. The goal was to compare the reading strategy profiles of Arabic native speakers in English and Arabic through quantitative means using a self-report survey of strategy use (n=90), and qualitative means using a think-aloud protocol with a subset of the original sample (n=10). The topic and research questions are pertinent because they add to a relatively small database showing Arabic native speakers rely heavily on reading strategies in their L2 than when reading in their L1.

scholarly journals Measuring Reading Strategy Use

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Clairmont
Keyword(s):  
Instrument Development ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Sentential Context ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Multidimensional Measure ◽  
Adolescent Readers ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Development And Validation

This study describes the development and validation of a multidimensional measure of preadolescent and adolescent readers’ abilities to apply reading comprehension strategies necessary for understanding challenging academic texts. The Strategy Use Measure (SUM) was designed with the intention of being pedagogically informative to the increasingly multilingual student population in the U.S. in grades 6 through 8. The SUM aims to measure four areas of knowledge and skill that are widely purported to support the use of reading strategies: (a) morphological awareness, (b) knowledge of cognates, (c) ability to relate micro- and macro- ideas within a text, and (d) the ability to use intra- and inter-sentential context clues for defining unfamiliar words. The test was developed following a principled, iterative process to instrument development, employing Rasch models and qualitative investigations to test hypotheses related to the instrument’s validity. Findings suggest promising evidence for the validity and fairness of this multidimensional measure.

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 Identificación de las estrategias y motivación hacia la lectura, en estudiantes universitarios mexicanos

2014 ◽  
pp. 254-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. a Dr. Jorge Guerra García ◽  
Dra. Yolanda Guevara Benítez ◽  
Mtro. Alfredo López Hernández ◽  
Mtro. Juan Pablo Rugerio Tapia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Public University ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Psychology Course ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

Las estrategias de comprensión lectora y la motivación intrínseca hacia la lectura son aspectos relacionados con la comprensión de textos expositivo-argumentativos, aunque no suelen evaluarse. El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar dichos aspectos en estudiantes de la carrera de Psicología de una universidad pública. Participaron 570 estudiantes de cuatro semestres escolares. Se aplicó individualmente el Inventario de Estrategias Metacognoscitivas y Motivación por la Lectura. Las estrategias más utilizadas fueron de identificación de información o ideas en el texto, las de nivel intermedio fueron de análisis de la lectura, y las de nivel bajo fueron de consulta de fuentes adicionales. La motivación intrínseca presentó un nivel intermedio. No hubo diferencias significativas entre los alumnos de distintos semestres, pero sí en el uso de apoyos para la lectura del texto. Las actividades escolares no parecen promover el uso de estrategias metacognoscitivas para la lectura de textos académicos, ni motivación intrínseca en los alumnos. AbstractReading comprehension strategies and intrinsic motivation towards reading are related features regarding comprehension of argumentative-expositive texts, although they are not always assessed. The main purpose was to identify such variables with college students enrolled in a Psychology course at a Mexican public university. 570 students participated from 19 groups at four semesters.  The Metacognitive and Motivational Reading Strategies Inventory was individually administered. Most of the students used strategies related to identify information or ideas in the text; in the middle were those for the reading analysis, and the least used was the additional sources review. Intrinsic motivation for reading academic texts was shown in an intermediate level. No statistically significant differences between students of different semesters were found, however, there were some differences in the use of supports for reading. School activities do not appear to increase the use of metacognitive strategies, neither they promote greater intrinsic motivation.Recibido: 07 de septiembre de 2013Aceptado: 10 de marzo de 2014

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 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.

scholarly journals Metacognitive Reading Strategies, Motivation, and Reading Comprehension Performance of Saudi EFL Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel C. Meniado
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Motivation ◽  
College Level ◽  
Motivation To Read ◽  
Reading Interests ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Metacognitive Reading Strategies ◽  
Descriptive Survey

<p>Metacognitive reading strategies and reading motivation play a significant role in enhancing reading comprehension. In an attempt to prove the foregoing claim in a context where there is no strong culture for reading, this study tries to find out if there is indeed a relationship between and among metacognitive reading strategies, reading motivation, and reading comprehension performance. Prior to finding out relationships, the study tried to ascertain the level of awareness and use of metacognitive reading strategies of the respondents when they read English academic texts, their level of motivation and reading interests, and their overall reading performance. Using descriptive survey and descriptive correlational methods with 60 randomly selected Saudi college-level EFL students in an all-male government-owned industrial college in Saudi Arabia, the study found out that the respondents moderately use the different metacognitive reading strategies when reading academic texts. Of the three categories of metacognitive reading strategies, the Problem-Solving Strategies (PROB) is the most frequently used. It was also revealed that the respondents have high motivation to read. They particularly prefer to read humor/comic books. On the level of reading comprehension performance, the respondents performed below average. Using t-test, the study reveals that there is no correlation between metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension. There is also no correlation between reading interest/motivation and reading comprehension. However, there is positive correlation between reading strategies and reading motivation. The findings of this study interestingly contradict previous findings of most studies, thus invite<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">s</span> more thorough investigation along the same line of inquiry.</p>

scholarly journals Investigating Saudi EFL Students’ Knowledge and Beliefs Related to English Reading Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saud Alenezi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
English Reading Comprehension ◽  
Preparatory Year

Reading is an essential strategic and a life-long skill required for success in learning. The current study explores the knowledge and beliefs of Saudi students of English as a foreign language (EFL) about English reading comprehension strategies. It also intends to determine if there is a significant correlation between the students’ foundational knowledge of English reading comprehension strategies and their beliefs about reading comprehension strategies. The study employed a quantitative method. The data were collected using a forty-item survey questionnaire. The respondents were 203 Saudi EFL students enrolled in Preparatory Year Program at Northern Border University in Saudi Arabia. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics to determine frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and a test of non-parametric correlation (Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient) was run to determine the relationship between the variables. The overall findings of the study revealed that the students have a good foundational knowledge of pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading reading strategies. The correlational analysis showed a medium correlation between students’ foundational knowledge of reading strategies and their beliefs about reading strategies. In conclusion, the study suggests some implications for teaching English reading to EFL students.

scholarly journals METACOGNITIVE READING STRATEGIES APPLICATION AMONG HIGH AND LOW PROFICIENT READERS AT PRE-UNIVERSITY LEVEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (43) ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
Naimah Derin ◽  
Suyansah Swanto ◽  
Abd Halib Mohd Ali ◽  
Wardatul Akmam Din
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Government School ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Problem Solving Strategies ◽  
University Level ◽  
Metacognitive Reading Strategies ◽  
Positive Effect

In higher education, reading of academic texts is considered as an essential access to scientific knowledge. Therefore, in this survey study will utilize the inventory of Survey on Reading Strategies Questionnaire (SOR) developed by Mokhtari and Sheory. It is explored to identify the two types of readers: high (HPR) and low (LPR) proficient readers at Form Sixth Cenre of Government School in Sabah, Malaysia. There are three major reading strategies: GLOB (Global), SUPP (Support) and PROB (Problem Solving) strategies. This quantitative approach is done by operating the descriptive (mean and standard of deviation) and inferential (Magnitude of effect) statistics. 250 participants from pre-university students randomly selected to respond to the questionnaire The questionnaire finding revealed that PROB strategy was favoured by both readers. To strengthen scrupulous answer, Effect size had given a better interpretation of the finding. The questionnaire provided all reading strategies to be negative effect to the high proficient readers (HPR) yet large positive effect to the low proficient readers (LPR).

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