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A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom

This research reports the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom. It aimed to find out different reading strategies used, how the reading strategies correlate with students’ level of proficiency and whether there is a difference in strategy use by male an...

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Main Author: Goh, Jien Xin
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2019
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PE English
Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3500/1/fyp_ED_2019_GJX.pdf
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spelling my-utar-eprints.35002019-08-14T07:03:37Z A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom Goh, Jien Xin PE English This research reports the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom. It aimed to find out different reading strategies used, how the reading strategies correlate with students’ level of proficiency and whether there is a difference in strategy use by male and female students. Data was collected using a questionnaire. The findings show that students use all Global Reading, Problem Solving and Support Reading strategies. The most preferred strategy is the Problem Solving strategy and the item analysis indicates that students use guessing to solve problems. Students should be taught to use strategies that critically analyze a text to become better readers. 2019-04-06 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3500/1/fyp_ED_2019_GJX.pdf Goh, Jien Xin (2019) A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3500/
institution Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
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topic PE English
spellingShingle PE English
Goh, Jien Xin
A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
description This research reports the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom. It aimed to find out different reading strategies used, how the reading strategies correlate with students’ level of proficiency and whether there is a difference in strategy use by male and female students. Data was collected using a questionnaire. The findings show that students use all Global Reading, Problem Solving and Support Reading strategies. The most preferred strategy is the Problem Solving strategy and the item analysis indicates that students use guessing to solve problems. Students should be taught to use strategies that critically analyze a text to become better readers.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Goh, Jien Xin
author_facet Goh, Jien Xin
author_sort Goh, Jien Xin
title A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
title_short A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
title_full A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
title_fullStr A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
title_full_unstemmed A study on the use of different reading strategies to read English text in Malaysian ESL classroom
title_sort study on the use of different reading strategies to read english text in malaysian esl classroom
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3500/1/fyp_ED_2019_GJX.pdf
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3500/
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