Using a Web quest based program in fostering English majors reading comprehension skills and their attitudes towards reading
Other Title(s)
استخدام نموذج الرحلات المعرفية عبر الويب لتحسين مهارات الفهم القرائي لطلاب قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و اتجاهاتهم نحو القراءة
Author
Masud, Huwayda Mustafa Abd al-Rahman
Source
Studies in Curriculum Instruction
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 228 (30 Nov. 2017), pp.42-77, 36 p.
Publisher
Egyptian Council for Curriculum and Instruction
Publication Date
2017-11-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
36
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The presenL study was earned out to investigate the effectiveness of using a Web Quest (WQ) program on fostering first year English Majors’ reading comprehension skills and their attitudes towards reading at the Faculty of Education, Minia University.
A quasi-experimental pretest- posttest control group research design was employed.
A language teaching program based on WQ was developed by the researcher and used with the treatment group, whereas, the conventional lecture method was used with the non treatment group.
Sixty female and male Ist year English Majors students were randomly chosen and divided into two groups the treatment and the non treatment groups of the research.
Tools of the study included a reading comprehension questionnaire, a language teaching WQ-based program, a checklist of students’ computer literacy, a pre-post Reading Attitude Scale and a pre-post Reading Comprehension Test.
Analysis of data (using t-test) revealed that the treatment group significantly outperformed the non treatment one on the post performance of the Reading Comprehension Test.
The treatment group significantly improved on the post performance of Reading Attitude Scale as well.
Discussion of these findings, recommendations and suggestions for further research are presented.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Masud, Huwayda Mustafa Abd al-Rahman. 2017. Using a Web quest based program in fostering English majors reading comprehension skills and their attitudes towards reading. Studies in Curriculum Instruction ،Vol. 2017, no. 228, pp.42-77.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1224773
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Masud, Huwayda Mustafa Abd al-Rahman. Using a Web quest based program in fostering English majors reading comprehension skills and their attitudes towards reading. Studies in Curriculum Instruction No. 228 (2017), pp.42-77.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1224773
American Medical Association (AMA)
Masud, Huwayda Mustafa Abd al-Rahman. Using a Web quest based program in fostering English majors reading comprehension skills and their attitudes towards reading. Studies in Curriculum Instruction . 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 228, pp.42-77.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1224773
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Record ID
BIM-1224773