Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2(1), May 2017

The Effect of Teaching Summarization Strategies on Reading Comprehension of Science and Humanities Iranian High school Students

Azam Sadat Pourhosseini Maybodi (Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Maybod Branch, Yazd, Iran)
Ashraf Haji Maibodi (College of Humanities, Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Maybod Branch, Yazd, Iran.)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 May 2017

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of teaching summarization strategies on the reading comprehension of English as Foreign Language (EFL) high school students. To this end, 80 high-school students from science and humanities sections were divided to two groups of 40 each. Two reading comprehension tests were developed and administered as pre-test and post-test. The obtained data that was analyzed using SPSS software showed that EFL learners in both groups showed significantly more improvement in their reading comprehension from the pre-test to the post-test. However, the numerical findings obtained from the paired samples t-test showed that students in the science group outperformed those who were in the humanity group and their scores seemed to be more statistically significant. The major pedagogical implication of this study is that summarization strategy can help to improve the reading comprehension of EFL high school students in Iran.

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ijefll

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics encompasses research articles, original research report, reviews, and scientific commentaries in education, literature, and ELT, including: English Language Teaching English as a Foreign Language Language and Linguistics Morphology Phonology Syntax Semantics ...