Gender, Passage Content and Text Types in Reading Comprehension Among ESL Learners
This study examined the comprehension performance among ESL learners. The aim was to examine whether gender, passage content and text types affect reading comprehension of upper secondary school students in Malaysia. The study also investigated gender differences of students’ reading habits. Thei...
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| Language: | English English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/4810/1/FBMK_2008_19A.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study examined the comprehension performance among ESL learners. The
aim was to examine whether gender, passage content and text types affect
reading comprehension of upper secondary school students in Malaysia. The
study also investigated gender differences of students’ reading habits. Their
favourite reading topics, reading materials and reading comprehension
performances (in terms of passage content and text types) were also explored in
relation to gender. The samples comprised 162 Upper Six students. Four
reading passages of different contents and text types – female-oriented narrative
text, male-oriented narrative text, female-expository narrative text and maleexpository
text, were used. They completed reading comprehension tasks
(written recall tasks and multiple-choice questions) after reading each of the
passages. Both reading comprehension tasks were analyzed to investigate if
there were gender differences in reading comprehension performance with
respect to passage content and text types. The written recall tasks were also analyzed in order to seek if there were gender differences in terms of quantity of
ideas and types of ideas recalled. The respondents were also asked to complete
a questionnaire. |
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