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Explicit reading strategies instruction for the improvement of reading skills of 11 grade learners
Alberto Rafael Barrios Núñez,Magister en la Enseñanza del Inglés +1 more
- 01 Jan 2018
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TL;DR: A qualitative action research based upon a Strategy Based Instruction (SBI) intervention to see its influence on the learners reading skills, to foster their motivation to read in English and to help them become more autonomous and efficient readers was carried out with a group of 26 eleventh grade students from Camilo Torres School in Santa Marta (Magdalena) as mentioned in this paper.
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Abstract: This study seeks to instruct a group of learners on reading and vocabulary skills through different tasks. The purpose was to implement a course in order to explicitly instruct the students in the application of specific reading and vocabulary strategies to facilitate their reading practice in English. The research was carried out with a group of 26 eleventh grade students from Camilo Torres School in Santa Marta (Magdalena). Based on the context analysis and the problem definition, it was made the decision to carry out a qualitative action research based upon a Strategy Based Instruction (SBI) intervention to see its influence on the learnersi reading skills, to foster their motivation to read in English and to help them become more autonomous and efficient readers. The data collection was applied in different stages along the process, and according to the instruments which were applied during the inquiry. Preliminary instruments such as an interview, a questionnaire, and a class observation were applied and analyzed at the beginning of the research with the purpose of identifying the problem related to low performance in reading comprehension skills.
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