Abstract
Even though reading comprehension provides significant educational implications at present, it is seen that there is a decreasing trend in the general reading level of younger generation. The study aimed to examine the Reading comprehension in relation to academic achievement in English among students at higher secondary levels. The investigator adopted survey method to study the reading comprehension in relation to academic achievement in English among students at higher secondary levels. For this study a sample of 300 higher secondary students from five Govt and Private schools which are situated in and around Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu were selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that there is a significant relationship between reading comprehension and academic achievement in English among selected students at higher secondary levels.
Highlights
Reading is one of the four necessary important language skills for those learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL), for academic success, and for professional development
It can be concluded that there is no significant difference in reading comprehension in relation to academic achievement in English based on sex of selected higher secondary students
HYPOTHESIS: 2 There is no significant mean score difference in reading comprehension in relation to academic achievement in English based on medium (Tamil& English) of selected higher secondary students
Summary
Reading is one of the four necessary important language skills for those learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL), for academic success, and for professional development. The problems related to background knowledge, cultural knowledge, and knowledge of text type. If a reader lacks prior knowledge in reading a text, he cannot follow and understand it because he does not know what. A reader uses background knowledge to integrate new information from a text into his prior information. An inadequate knowledge of text type is a problem in reading texts. The text type such as newspaper articles, fairy tales, and business letters, if the reader does not know what kind of the text, he cannot follow and understand what the text is about. A reader can understand a text if he is familiar with the text type
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