Effectivenes in applying reading strategies when reading in a foreign language

Fil: EFL learners often fail to reach a level of reading ability that allows them to comprehend texts in English and to reach a level of reading that lets them feel confident when interpreting a given text. Teaching reading strategies might be helpful in improving the reading skills of EFL students...

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Autor principal: Duprez, Andrea
Otros Autores: Insaurralde, Andrea
Formato: Tesis de grado acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación 2016
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Inglés
English
Lectura
Reading
Enseñanza de idiomas
Language instruction
Enseñanza secundaria
Secondary education
Enseñanza de una segunda lengua
Second language instruction
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spelling I42-R148-123456789-15782024-10-24T13:44:38Z Effectivenes in applying reading strategies when reading in a foreign language Duprez, Andrea Insaurralde, Andrea Inglés English Lectura Reading Enseñanza de idiomas Language instruction Enseñanza secundaria Secondary education Enseñanza de una segunda lengua Second language instruction Fil: EFL learners often fail to reach a level of reading ability that allows them to comprehend texts in English and to reach a level of reading that lets them feel confident when interpreting a given text. Teaching reading strategies might be helpful in improving the reading skills of EFL students. This thesis investigates whether reading strategies instruction might be effective in improving reading skills for Argentinian high school students. To carry out the investigation, the following questions were considered: (i) Does unawareness of the use of reading strategies result in a lack of understanding a text in a foreign language?; (ii) Is reading strategy instruction useful for students?; (iii) Can EFL/ESL learners improve their English reading comprehension using metacognitive reading strategies? In order to answer these questions, an experimental study was done where students from ages 13 to 17 were randomly divided into two groups and given the same texts in English. However, one of the two groups received precise instruction for several weeks on reading strategies such as anticipating, predicting, skimming, scanning, use of cognates and summarizing. The results revealed that the students who were given instruction about the different reading strategies were better able to understand the given texts than those who were in the group that did not receive any instruction. This shows that teaching reading strategies and using them when reading a text in a foreign language help EFL students to improve considerably their reading comprehension. Fil: Duprez, Andrea. Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina. Fil: Insaurralde, Andrea. Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina. 2016 2017-09-12T23:16:58Z 2021-11-26T03:56:06Z 2024-10-23T18:47:33Z 2017-09-12T23:16:58Z 2021-11-26T03:56:06Z 2024-10-23T18:47:33Z 2016 info:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de grado info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion http://dspace.ufasta.edu.ar/handle/123456789/1578 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.es_AR application/pdf application/pdf Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación instname:Universidad FASTA reponame:REDI
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English
Lectura
Reading
Enseñanza de idiomas
Language instruction
Enseñanza secundaria
Secondary education
Enseñanza de una segunda lengua
Second language instruction
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English
Lectura
Reading
Enseñanza de idiomas
Language instruction
Enseñanza secundaria
Secondary education
Enseñanza de una segunda lengua
Second language instruction
Duprez, Andrea
Effectivenes in applying reading strategies when reading in a foreign language
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English
Lectura
Reading
Enseñanza de idiomas
Language instruction
Enseñanza secundaria
Secondary education
Enseñanza de una segunda lengua
Second language instruction
description Fil: EFL learners often fail to reach a level of reading ability that allows them to comprehend texts in English and to reach a level of reading that lets them feel confident when interpreting a given text. Teaching reading strategies might be helpful in improving the reading skills of EFL students. This thesis investigates whether reading strategies instruction might be effective in improving reading skills for Argentinian high school students. To carry out the investigation, the following questions were considered: (i) Does unawareness of the use of reading strategies result in a lack of understanding a text in a foreign language?; (ii) Is reading strategy instruction useful for students?; (iii) Can EFL/ESL learners improve their English reading comprehension using metacognitive reading strategies? In order to answer these questions, an experimental study was done where students from ages 13 to 17 were randomly divided into two groups and given the same texts in English. However, one of the two groups received precise instruction for several weeks on reading strategies such as anticipating, predicting, skimming, scanning, use of cognates and summarizing. The results revealed that the students who were given instruction about the different reading strategies were better able to understand the given texts than those who were in the group that did not receive any instruction. This shows that teaching reading strategies and using them when reading a text in a foreign language help EFL students to improve considerably their reading comprehension.
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