The Development Of Reading Modules And Usage Of Reading Strategies In Esl Classroom
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Date
2016-07
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Javed, Muhammad
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The current study focused on the development of reading comprehension
modules for secondary school ESL teachers to facilitate reading comprehension
abilities among secondary school ESL students in Malaysia. Besides, the reading
comprehension strategies used by ESL teachers to teach literal, reorganisation and
inferential comprehension questions using the reading modules developed by the
researcher were also identified. A set of six reading comprehension modules was
developed and each module was divided into three parts namely; Part A (literal
comprehension), Part B (reorganisation comprehension) and Part C (inferential
comprehension). Each part of the modules consists of 5 texts with diverse genres and
themes that were selected and adapted from various authentic sources. The difficulty
level and length of the texts increased gradually from module 1 to module 6 in line
with students’ reading abilities (band 1 to band 6). In addition, five comprehension
questions were also constructed under each text in each reading module. The
qualitative data were collected through observation that involved 12 secondary
school ESL teachers and 240 Form Four students that were selected through
purposive sampling from two secondary schools from Penang, Malaysia. The
findings of the study reveal that the ESL teachers employed some reading strategies
for teaching literal, reorganisation and inferential comprehension questions.
However, they still need an array of reading strategies to teach reading
comprehension questions effectively. The researcher has designed lesson plans for
ESL teachers to serve as guidelines to teach reading comprehension efficiently. As
regards the pedagogical implications of the reading comprehension modules and
lesson plans, they are significantly important to provide a new paradigm to ESL
teachers to teach reading comprehension efficaciously and successfully at secondary
school level in Malaysia.
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