독해력 신장을 위한 독해전략 실험 연구 : Centered on Middle School 3 중학교 3학년을 중심으로 = An Experimental Study of Reading Strategies To Improve Reading Comprehension

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to find a way for teaching English reading comprehension to the students of English as a foreign language in Korea and to develop a teaching model for reading comprehension in reading classes. To achieve this purpose, this study was conducted according to the following procedure :
(1) Based upon theoretical background and the survey of the English reading strategies, the main experimental study was conducted form March 1999 to December 1999. Two groups of students were selected from the subjects on the basis of test scores. One was the experimental group, 34 students and the other was the comparative group, 32 students.
(2) The subjects of the comparative group were presented by traditional methods based on bottom-up process when they studied the main text. But those in the experimental class were instructed through reading strategies.
(3) At the end of this work each student had a test. The test was composed of 25 items, 25 minutes, and 25 scores in each. The problems were made up of searching topics, main ideas, organization of passage and inference.
The result analyses were shown as follows;
(1) The questionnaire reported that almost all the students focused on word power, but neglected reading strategies. So they lost their interest in general English reading activities.
(2) The experimental group had higher total comprehension scores, which showed reading strategies were significantly more effective than the comparative.
(3) 4 reading strategies (previewing, predicting, scanning, skimming) demonstrated a greater effect in developing the reading comprehension ability of students.
Some implications could be drawn from the results of this study;
(1) In English reading classes, students could be presented different effective strategies on paragraph levels of the text and practice those strategies to the full use.
(2) Students could recognize the importance and utility of reading strategies and do exercises through train to learn and develop their own effective strategies for successful reading.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.서론
• Ⅱ.이론적 배경
• Ⅲ.연구의 절차
• Ⅳ.연구의 실행
• Ⅴ.연구의 검증 및 논의
• Ⅵ.결론
• 참고문헌
• ABSTRACT