ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 12 No 3 (2023): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching

Web-based elaborative feedback provision and the development of reading skills

Atalay Lulie Biresaw (College of Social Science Humanities Journalism and Communication, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Berhanu Haile Bogale (College of Social Science Humanities Journalism and Communication, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)



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Publish Date
30 Nov 2023

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether web-based feedback can improve students’ reading comprehension. Fifty first-year students participated in the study: 25 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group. The study used a quasi-experimental design. Data was collected via a web-based reading comprehension test and a paper-based test. Moodle Cloud server was used to organize the training tasks and to administer the post-test for the experimental group. Data were analysed using mean, frequency, independent samples t-test, and paired samples t-test. The pre-test score indicated that students were at elementary comprehension level with a percentage of 34%, and 37% for the treatment and the comparison group, respectively. There was also a statistically significant mean difference in the post-test scores between the experimental and the control groups (t= 6.174, df= 48, and p= 0.000) with mean scores of 17.84 and 13.16, respectively. This shows that web-based feedback has significantly improved students’ reading comprehension.

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Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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The aim of this journal is to promote a principled approach to research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging inquiries into relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis in: first, second, and foreign ...