TITLE:
English Studies S1 Students’ Awareness of Reading Comprehension Strategies and Performance: A Case Study at the Faculty of Languages, Literature and Art, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
AUTHORS:
Anouar El Malihi, Hind Brigui
KEYWORDS:
Reading Comprehension Strategies, Awareness, Performance, Improvement, S1 Students, EFL Context
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.14 No.11,
November
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: Reading comprehension is the most challenging
language skill that the Moroccan University English studies’ students face in
their learning process. This is due to their
low or non-awareness of reading comprehension strategies that shall help them
to understand English texts efficiently. Respectively, this survey first
attempts to evaluate the students’ awareness of reading-comprehension strategies. It also intends to
investigate on the relationship between the S1 students’ awareness of
reading comprehension strategies and their performance in reading comprehension
tasks. A sample of 189 University students in EFL context are chosen, but only
158 of them have filled in the questionnaire and completed their pre-test and
post-test. All of these 158 students have
attended the usual reading curriculum without any special treatment.
This research main finding indicates that the S1 students’ awareness concerning
reading comprehension strategies have not been developed throughout their
presence in the usual reading comprehension courses. The other important result of
this study reveals that there is no correlation between the S1 students’
performance and their awareness about reading comprehension strategies. In
brief, the S1 students’ scores in reading comprehension tasks are not determined by their degree of awareness about reading
comprehension strategies, and the usual reading comprehension classes do not
satisfy their academic needs. Therefore, the coming studies should focus on the
appropriate teaching of reading comprehension strategies so as to have an
effective impact on the students’ awareness about reading comprehension
strategies and eventually on their performance in reading comprehension tasks.