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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| Reading skills play an important role in mastering a language and
knowledge. Therefore it is important to expose students to practice strategic
reading habits since it will assist them to perform in academic journey. The
current investigation aims to observe the effect of reading strategies training
towards subjects’ reading comprehension performance as well as the subjects’
level of awareness utilizing reading strategies when they perform their reading
tasks. The subjects in this investigation were 30 first semester students from the
Commerce Department of Sultan Azlan Shah Polytechnic. 15 subjects were
Diploma of Marketing (DPR) students and another 15 subjects were Diploma of
Accountancy (DAT) students. DPR students were assigned to the experimental
group meanwhile DAT students were assigned to the control group. The
experimental group undergone 60 minute reading strategy training for 12 weeks
meanwhile the control group did not receive any training. In order to observe the
effect of the training, pre-test and post-test for reading comprehension test and
survey on reading strategies (SORS) were administered to the experimental
group. The pre-test and post-test were also conducted to the control group so that
the performance for both group could be compared. The data obtained from the
tests were analyzed via SPSS. The t-test conducted had revealed that the
experimental group showed a significant improvement in reading comprehension
test score and survey on reading strategy score. This evidence has proven that the
reading strategy training exposed to the experimental group managed to facilitate
the subjects to read and further perform better in comprehending the reading text. |
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