The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of strategy training
in small group work on the reading comprehension of academic
texts in English by Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students.
The strategy-training used was the Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTF)
which focused on the four reading comprehension strategies: predicting,
clarifying, questioning and summarizing.
The research study was an experimental one using a single group design.
The participants were thirty-four first year students enrolled in the English
for Academic Purposes (EAP) program at a tertiary institution in the
northeastern part of Thailand. Both quantitative and qualitative research
methods were used. The pre-, post- and follow-up reading tests were
employed for quantitative analysis. The students' performances were
analyzed for statistically significant differences immediately at the end of
the ten-week training and in the follow-up test eight weeks after the
training. Qualitative data were collected from students' pre-, post- and
follow-up questionnaires, checklists and journals, teacher's checklists and
journal, and independent observer's checklists and field notes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218667 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Wisaijorn, Patareeya, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Professional Communication |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Patareeya Wisaijorn |
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