INVESTIGATING FACTORS AFFECTING READING COMPREHENSION, PERCEPTIONS OF READING TASK-TYPES AND STRATEGIES

Autores/as

  • To Thi Ngoc Huyen Tra Vinh University, Vietnam
  • Khau Hoang Anh Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v6i1.4178

Palabras clave:

reading comprehension, factors, reading comprehension task-types, reading comprehension strategies

Resumo

Reading can be a crucial skill in studying a language as it helps record a plethora of knowledge in the world. Reading can be an entertaining activity or it can be a task. This study aims at investigating the task as this is commonly seen in studying a language. More specifically, the study targets three different objectives and 30 first-year English majors were recruited to answer the survey questions. They were asked about the factors that they thought to have the greatest effects on reading comprehension. The second section asked them about their opinion about difficult reading comprehension task-types. The third section elicited their opinion about reading comprehension strategies which they thought to be difficult to apply in doing comprehension tasks. The results revealed that most of the participants posited that they had obstacles in vocabulary, grammatical structures and unfamiliarity of the topic and vocabulary was seen as the most problematic. Then, grammatical structures were seen as the second most difficult. Furthermore, they thought that true/false questions, sentence completion questions; tasks like summary/table completion; and multiple-choice questions hindered them from understanding the reading comprehension tasks. Next, guessing the meaning from the context was found to be the most difficult strategy while spotting the specific information to answer the questions was seen as the second difficulty. Some limitations of the study were also concluded.

 

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  • To Thi Ngoc Huyen, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

    To Thi Ngoc Huyen is a lecturer of English at the School of Foreign Languages, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam. She earned her Master’s Degree in Principles and Methods in English Language Education at Can Tho University, Vietnam. Her interests include teaching methodology and translation.

  • Khau Hoang Anh, Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

    Khau Hoang Anh teaches English at Tra Vinh University (the Head of English Department). He did his Master’s in TESOL at California State University, Fullerton, USA. He has taught English to Vietnamese learners, especially undergraduates for more than 10 years. He has published many papers on foreign/second language education and translation. Currently, he is doing his doctorate degree in Bilingual Education at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

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2022-02-21

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Vol. 6 Núm. 1 (2022)

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