Investigating EFL students’ levels of reading proficiency at Al-Quds Open University and identifying difficulties facing them in practicing the reading skill
Other Title(s)
استقصاء مستويات إتقان القراءة لدى طلبة تخصص اللغة الإنجليزية في جامعة القدس المفتوحة و تحديد الصعوبات التي تواجههم في ممارسة مهارة القراءة
Author
Duwaykat, Khalid Abd al-Jalil Ayshah
Source
مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي : مجلة علمية عالمية محكمة مفهرسة
Publisher
Association of Arab Universities General Secretariat
Publication Date
2019-05-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
20
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
- Universities
- Higher education
- Students
- Teaching
- Palestine
- English language
- Reading skills
- al-Quds Open University
English Abstract
Reading plays a significant role in academic achievement, particularly when learners have to work over a huge amount of foreign language materials for their own specialist subjects.
Nevertheless, not all learners have the same levels of reading proficiency and mostly learners of English as a foreign language face some difficulties in practicing the reading skill especially in most Arab countries and Palestine is not an exception.
Thus, this study aimed at investigating EFL students’ levels of reading proficiency at Al-Quds Open University in addition to identifying difficulties facing them in practicing the reading skill.
The participants involved a random sample of 116 undergraduate students (males & females) who specialize in TEFL for their bachelors' degrees at QOU in Palestine.
The descriptive method was used by means of quantitative methods through a 33- item questionnaire to identify EFL reading proficiency levels in addition to identifying the difficulties facing students when practising reading English texts.
Results revealed that EFL students’ at QOU scored high levels of reading proficiency and there were no statistically significant differences at (a =0.05) on the total degree of EFL students’ reading proficiency due to gender, age and level of study.
There was no statistically significant relationship between taking the two courses in reading and students ' levels of proficiency.
Data Type
Conference Papers
Record ID
BIM-909038
American Psychological Association (APA)
Duwaykat, Khalid Abd al-Jalil Ayshah. 2019-05-31. Investigating EFL students’ levels of reading proficiency at Al-Quds Open University and identifying difficulties facing them in practicing the reading skill. Education Conference in the Arab World Towards a distinctive educational system (2018 : University of Jordan, Jordan). . Vol. 39, no. 1 (عدد خاص) (May. 2019), pp.19-38.Amman Jordan : Association of Arab Universities General Secretariat.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-909038
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Duwaykat, Khalid Abd al-Jalil Ayshah. Investigating EFL students’ levels of reading proficiency at Al-Quds Open University and identifying difficulties facing them in practicing the reading skill. . Amman Jordan : Association of Arab Universities General Secretariat. 2019-05-31.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-909038
American Medical Association (AMA)
Duwaykat, Khalid Abd al-Jalil Ayshah. Investigating EFL students’ levels of reading proficiency at Al-Quds Open University and identifying difficulties facing them in practicing the reading skill. . Education Conference in the Arab World Towards a distinctive educational system (2018 : University of Jordan, Jordan).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-909038