The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of reading strategies instruction on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of elementary school students.
A total number of 36 of 5th grade students in B Elementary School participated in thi...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of reading strategies instruction on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of elementary school students.
A total number of 36 of 5th grade students in B Elementary School participated in this study.
The research hypotheses were as follows.
1 : After reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension will be different than before.
2 : After reading strategies instruction, the total scores and sub-factors scores on reading attitudes will be different than before.
3 : After reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of upper group using more reading strategies will become higher than the lower group's.
4 : After reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of the lower group in the pre-test scores on reading comprehension will be more advanced than the upper group's.
In order to test these hypotheses, Independent t-tests and Paired t-tests were executed.
The results of the study were as follows.
First, after receiving reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension were improved at the .001 significance level.
Second, after receiving reading strategies instruction, the total scores on reading attitudes was improved at the .01 significance level. The scores on the sub-factors of reading attitudes were improved significantly for reading anxiety, reading as enjoyment, and silent vs oral reading.
Third, after receiving reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of the lower group using few reading strategies improved more than the upper group's.
Fourth, after receiving reading strategies instruction, the scores on reading comprehension and reading attitudes of the group that had low scores on the pre-test were more improved than the upper group's.
These results suggested that the reading strategies instruction was effective to improve reading comprehension and reading attitudes.
The implications of the study and the suggestions for the future studies were made.