Abstract
This study aims to investigate whether the use of six selected short stories throughout the duration of a 14-week course could enhance students’ reading comprehension achievement at the end of the semester. Out of the six short stories read, three were chosen as in-class assignments known as ‘Personal Reading Logs’ (hereafter, PRLs). One group of semester two Diploma students taking a reading skills course was selected through a convenience sampling method. A pre-test was conducted by having the students answer a past semester reading quiz of which the results would then be compared to their post-test (final reading exam) results. A paired samples t-test revealed no significant difference in the reading scores of the pre-test and the post-test, t (17) = -.265, p > .05. Since the p-value was bigger than 0.05, this indicated that the mean reading score of the post-test (M = 50.556) was not significantly higher than the mean reading score of the pre-test (M = 49.722). Therefore, the null hypothesis which stated that there was no difference in the mean score of the pre-test and post-test was retained. Overall, the result refuted the findings of other studies promoting the effectiveness of using short stories to enhance L2 reading comprehension achievement.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Nik Ismail Azlan, Nik Mastura nikmastura@uitm.edu.my Mohandas, Eliyas Sulaiman eliyas9154@uitm.edu.my Othman, Salwa salwa_othman@uitm.edu.my Azhar, Muhammad Aizat aizat7686@uitm.edu.my |
Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > Higher Education > Methods of study > Reading skills |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Academy of Language Studies |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Modern Language and Applied Linguistics |
UiTM Journal Collections: | UiTM Journal > International Journal of Modern Language and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL) |
ISSN: | 2600-7266 |
Volume: | 3 |
Number: | 2 |
Page Range: | pp. 1-6 |
Keywords: | Personal reading logs, short stories, L2 reading comprehension achievement |
Date: | June 2019 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63596 |