Reading English as a foreign language: The interplay of abilities and strategies

Al-Qahtani, Abdulkhaleq A.

doi:10.17509/ijal.v10i3.31738

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“…Several studies have been conducted to investigate whether reciprocal teaching is efficient in improving reading comprehension of learners with reading disabilities (Al-Qahtani, 2021;Bruce & Chan, 1991;Gersten, Fuchs, Williams, & Baker, 2001;Klingner & Vaughn, 1996;Lysynchuk, Pressley, & Vye, 1990) and to examine the efficacy of reciprocal teaching in different grades (Doolittle, Hicks, Triplett, Nichols, & Young, 2006;Gilroy & Moore, 1988;Gruenbaum, 2012;Kelly, Moore & Tuck, 1994;Puspita & Nuroh, 2022;Satriani, 2022;Slater & Horstman, 2002;Westera & Moore, 1995). The common aim of these research studies was to explore how strategy instruction, carried out through reciprocal teaching, affects learners' reading comprehension and use of reading strategies.…”

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The Effects of Strategy Training on the Use of Global Reading Strategies: Implications From Think-Aloud and Eye-Tracking Data

UTKU BILICI,

SUBASI,

DOLGUNSOZ

2023

TOJDE

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Considering the critical role of readings strategies in L2 reading this study aimed to investigate the impact of strategy training on Turkish EFL learners’ use of global reading strategies. 23 freshmen, enrolled in the ELT Department, participated in the study, and the data were collected through eye tracking and thinkaloud protocols. The results are encouraging for the use of reciprocal teaching, one of the comprehensionenhancing approaches to teach reading, in the EFL contexts. Eye tracking results, hand in hand with the think-aloud protocols’ findings, revealed that the participants utilised global reading strategies more frequently to a statistically significant degree after the strategy instruction. Thus, it was concluded that strategy training was useful for the participants to improve their use of global reading strategies, and a recent technological tool can be purposefully integrated into the data collection procedure of educational research studies. Pedagogical implications on the strategy training for the employment of global reading strategies that would help students improve reading skills need to be given attention by teachers.

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The Effects of Strategy Training on the Use of Global Reading Strategies: Implications From Think-Aloud and Eye-Tracking Data

UTKU BILICI,

SUBASI,

DOLGUNSOZ

2023

TOJDE

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“…Nowadays, studying TOEFL is very important (Thu, 2019;Wang, 2019). TOEFL is not only to measure English proficiency but also for the sake of scholarship requirements (Al-Qahtani, 2021;Anwar & Mustafa, 2021). In addition, Thu (2019) added the TOEFL test is highly recommended for everyone who wants to continue his/her education level.…”

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Exploring EFL Students Difficulties and Strategies in Learning TOEFL ITP of Structure and Written Expression

Bulan

Imansyah

Wahyuni

et al. 2023

VELES

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Nowadays the TOEFL test is very important. The TOEFL test is not only to measure English proficiency, but also for the sake of scholarship requirements, and as a requirement to graduate from college. This study explores the difficulties of EFL students in learning the TOEFL ITP of Structure and Written Expression (SWE) and how EFL students overcome difficulties in learning the TOEFL ITP of SWE. This study uses a narrative inquiry design. The data used in this study is qualitative data obtained from information provided by students through questionnaires and interviews. The results of the study show that there are several difficulties for students in learning TOEFL ITP, namely sentences with multiple clauses, sentences with inverted subjects and verbs, problems with prepositions, problems with the form of the verb, sentences with one clause, problems with subject/verb agreement. The way students overcome difficulties in the TOEFL ITP of SWE is to re-learn what has been taught by the tutor, reopen the module, learn from several other references besides the reference given by the tutor, learn from youtube, re-learn with classmates who have mastered the material. , do the practice questions independently. The findings in this research are expected to give an empirical contribution to TOEFL teachers to pay attention to students' difficulties in learning TOEFL ITP, especially SWE.

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“…The strategies aim at putting a remarkable correlation between reading proficiency and successful learning processes, in which students potentially tend to show a better improvement in tough reading performance (Chen et al, 2020) since oral reading forms multiply connect the readers' ideas to comprehend the literary texts (Gopal & Singh, 2020). Hence, a central goal of reading aims at assisting low-level students to become high-level proficiency readers through orders and intensities (Al-Qahtani, 2021).…”

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The EFL students’ online reading determinants: Perceiving from their selected folklore readings

Sumekto

Taufiqulloh

Aryani

2022

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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In an attempt to increase reading performance at university level. This study aims at perceiving the experiential determinants of EFL students’ online reading performance. Data were collected from 182 undergraduate students’ self-rated questionnaire based on the assigned Indonesian folklores in English version through the online reading platforms. Data analysis used descriptive statistics and factor analysis. The results showed that EFL students’ reading habits and reading frequencies and trends were very supportive, whilst reading effectiveness and reading for pleasure supported their reading performance. Tests of chi-square’s four variables were statistically significant indicating the proportional majority of online reading activity. Meanwhile, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) indicated two components and variables under the eigenvalues’ square root. The interpretation of two components was coherent with the pilot results on the online reading readability scale, analyzed the use of positive and negative affect items as undertaken from the pattern and structure matrix for PCA with the Obliging rotation. EFL students’ online reading is engaging accordingly since students accomplished their reading performance based on individual accessibilities and habits to understand the contents of genres. This study concludes that EFL students’ online reading performance has been practically facilitated by the technology devices multiply. Hence, four online reading variables increased EFL students’ reading awareness and performance accordingly.

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Reading English as a foreign language: The interplay of abilities and strategies

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

The Effects of Strategy Training on the Use of Global Reading Strategies: Implications From Think-Aloud and Eye-Tracking Data

The Effects of Strategy Training on the Use of Global Reading Strategies: Implications From Think-Aloud and Eye-Tracking Data

Exploring EFL Students Difficulties and Strategies in Learning TOEFL ITP of Structure and Written Expression

The EFL students’ online reading determinants: Perceiving from their selected folklore readings

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