READING TECHNIQUES USED BY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Author (s) : T.RANJULA PUSHPA, B.BALASUBASHINI, R.RAJESHWARI, V.REVATHI

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Abstract :
This study's primary goal is to identify, classify, and analyze the EFL reading strategies used by students at higher education institutions. The second goal is to investigate how readers' variables, such as field of study, linguistic competency, reading achievement, motivation, beliefs, and reading comprehension evaluation ability, interact with the usage of techniques. Drawing conclusions for reading instruction in EFL is a result of the first two goals. The current study is positioned within a reading, interactive cognitive schema theory, and EFL/ESL learning techniques research to achieve these goals. A questionnaire, a cloze test, the think-aloud approach, an error detection exam, linguistic tests, and reading comprehension tests are all used in the process to gather data. On these data, statistical and interpretive analysis are performed. The research's conclusions show that the subjects use a wide variety of tactics. Six dichotomous categories are used to organize these techniques: avoidance, in-depth reading, non-use of linguistic and content schemata, activation of linguistic and content schemata, decoding/skimming, and reading for gist.

Keywords : Dichotomous, Tactics, Questionnaire, Linguistic.

Conference Date : 30/08/2019

Pages : 226

Paper ID : 19217