Abstract
Reading, Knowledge, Motivation Reading is not only one of the most important skills in language teaching, but also one of the main objectives of learning English in general. Many factors such as students’ background knowledge, motivation, interest, organization of the texts and study skills may affect reading skill. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether teaching study skills would increase students’ reading comprehension ability or not. To achieve this goal an experiment was carried out at Anna University College of Engineering, Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu, India during the second semester of 2016-2017. The results of the study supported the argument that skills in reading depend on the precise coordination of a number of special reading skills and there is a significant relationship between the knowledge of study skills and reading comprehension.
Highlights
Most English teachers would agree that reading is an important quality and ability to help learners to improve their skill of a language, and to foster new ways of upgrading it
Clarke and Silberstain (2014) emphasize that skill in reading depends on precise coordination of a number of special skills such as skimming, scanning, thorough comprehension and critical reading
A Sample of 76 pupils studying in first year BE(Bachelor of Engineering) Course was selected by random sampling techniques from Anna University College of Engineering, Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu, India
Summary
Most English teachers would agree that reading is an important quality and ability to help learners to improve their skill of a language, and to foster new ways of upgrading it. Based on the contribution of psychology to the learning theory and its impact on reading, the psycholinguistics model emerged as a new perspective. In this line of thought Goodman defines reading as “psycholinguistic guessing game”. Clarke and Silberstain (2014) emphasize that skill in reading depends on precise coordination of a number of special skills such as skimming, scanning, thorough comprehension and critical reading. These skills are either language skills (knowledge of vocabulary, syntax, etc.) or reading skills. Study skills along with language skills improve students reading comprehension
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