Öğretmenin sesli okuması ve öğrencilerin sessiz okumasının yüzeysel ve derin düzey anlama üzerindeki etkileri: Yükseköğretim bağlamından yarı deneysel bir çalışma

Abstract

The research on the effects of teacher’s reading aloud versus students’ silent reading on reading comprehension in EFL contexts is limited. This study is significant as it is the first of its kind investigating the effects of teacher’s reading aloud versus students’ silent reading of an informational text on the surface and deep level reading comprehension of tertiary EFL students. 60 pre-intermediate students of English participated in the study. The research was designed as a quasi-experimental study with an experimental and a control group. The experimental group had an informational text read aloud to them by the teacher while the control group read the same text silently. Two measures were used to test the effects of treatments on reading comprehension: a multiple choice text for surface level comprehension and a phrase cloze text for in-depth comprehension. The findings showed that there was no significant difference between teacher’s reading aloud and students’ silent reading conditions in surface level comprehension, yet students’ silent reading was found to be significantly more effective than teacher’s reading aloud in deep level comprehension. The study implies that students’ silent reading can be preferred over teacher’s reading aloud in EFL classes when reading informational texts. Another implication signals the possibility of eclectic in-class reading practices compromising two strategies in accordance with their functions. According to this paradigm, teacher’s reading aloud can be used as a bridge in comprehending the text at the surface level, which could then be followed by students’ silent reading for in-depth comprehension.