Volume 28, No. 2 Special Issue: Celebrating Linguistically Diverse Learners of St. Louis: Responsive Research and Practice for Literacy Proficiency as a variable in Gulf EFL students’ employment of reading strategies

Proficiency as a variable in Gulf EFL students’ employment of reading strategies

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Volume 28, No. 2 Special Issue: Celebrating Linguistically Diverse Learners of St. Louis: Responsive Research and Practice for Literacy
contributor.author:
Endley, Martin J.
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:24:10Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:24:10Z
date.issued:
2016-10
description.abstract:
This paper reports a study of the reading strategies used by twelve Arabic-speaking undergraduates at a major Gulf university when reading texts in English. The procedure employed was a think-aloud protocol followed by semi-structured interview. Three research questions were addressed: (a) What are the primary comprehension problems encountered by students attending an English-speaking university in the Gulf region when reading academic texts in English? (b) What reading strategies do the students actually employ in order to solve their reading problems? (c) To what extent can the demographic variable of English reading proficiency be used to reliably predict the students’ use of reading strategies in English? Results revealed that while the participants were already in possession of a repertoire strategies, they often failed to use them effectively. This was especially the case with the lower-proficiency readers. The implications of these findings are briefly discussed.
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endingpage:
223
identifier.doi:
10125/66900
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66900
number:
2
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
The Reading Process
site_url:
/rfl/item/352
startingpage:
183
subject:
Arabic EFL learners reading comprehension problems reading strategies think aloud-protocol
title:
Proficiency as a variable in Gulf EFL students’ employment of reading strategies
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Special
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Text
volume:
28