Reading strategy training improved reading comprehension for non-English majors over a five-week experiment¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The experimental group's reading comprehension improved significantly from pretest to posttest after strategy training, while the control group's change was not significant. → Yang 2017

Evidence¶

Yang 2017¶

Xiaoling Yang. (2017). On Non-English Majors' Strategy Training in English Reading Comprehension. English Language Teaching, 10(10). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n10p153

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Five-week quasi-experiment with two groups of second-year non-English majors; the experimental group received strategy training and the control group a traditional approach. The article reports "a significant difference between the pretest and the posttest" for the experimental group (t = 4.764, P ≤ 0.001, DF 57).

"Comparing with the pretest, students in the experimental group made progress in the posttest (68.279 vs. 74.918 in the mean score). There was a significant difference between the pretest and the posttest."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading and Language — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Strategy-trained students significantly outperformed control students on the posttest objective and subjective measures — related
• Explicit reading strategy instruction produced a statistically significant pre-to-post gain in reading comprehension for Ethiopian EFL university students — related