A Study Of The Iranian Efl Learners' Use Of Reading Strategies
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2015
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RAFTARI, SHOHREH
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence the use of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading strategies by the Iranian EFL learners, and to profile their most and least frequently used reading strategies through conducting a survey. The study sample consisted of 200 male and female university and high school students, who were selected conveniently from 4 high schools and 2 universities in the city of Kerman in south east Iran. In collecting the data, 7 instruments (Personal information questionnaire, survey of reading strategies (SORS), an EFL proficiency test, an EFL reading comprehension test, an L1 reading comprehension test, interview and think aloud) were used. Based on Pearson correlation coefficient results, the age of the participants was significantly correlated with their use of the EFL reading strategies. Furthermore, the quantitative data analysis through T-test showed that there existed no significant difference in the two educational, EFL reading comprehension ability, L1 reading comprehension ability and EFL proficiency groups in their use of SORS strategies. However, there existed a significant difference between the two daily EFL and the two daily Persian reading groups (some daily reading, no daily reading) in their use of EFL reading strategies. The high and low EFL proficiency participants' most and least frequently used SORS EFL reading strategies were profiled through T-test and mean specification. The qualitative data were collected through interview and think aloud. The results of the qualitative data analysis supported the quantitative phase results and extra reading strategies, which were not listed in SORS, were profiled based on interview and think aloud analysis. The study implications were that the most important factor in
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the use of reading strategies is experience which increases through extensive reading and length of time. As a result, the best method to increase the Iranian EFL learners' use of EFL reading strategies can be persuading them to read in both their first and foreign or second languages.
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A Study Of The Iranian Efl Learners , Use Of Reading Strategies