Effect of cognitive & metacognitive Strategy developing reading comprehension emphasizing students’ linguality

Reading comprehension ability is potency of students to comprehend meaning of written texts, text details and main ideas. Furthermore, ability of reading comprehension activated learners to communicate with writers. To understand main ideas of written texts, help learners to be aware and to get particular messages from texts. Cognitive and metacognitive knowledges help readers to analyze, to summarize, to judge, and to distinguish main idea of reading texts and also more details about writer viewpoints to predicate and decision making to monitor text contents too. Monolingual students are those groups which must be aware about impacts of metacognitive strategy upon reading development and comprehension through to prepare and emanate bio feedbacks with teachers. Hence, monolingual groups have to be taught more than bilingual ones due to their low – proficiency levels and also their weak knowledge capacities about reading development strategies. Indeed, today understanding the effective strategies which help to learn language skills for all of scholars in TESOL domains is very significant, so every teacher that is aware about efficacy of those psychological strategies like cognitive and metacognitive or both; he or she is able to teach language skills particularly reading comprehension very conveniently and more productive language learning results. Without understanding reading strategy text comprehension to learn language skills is impossible.

STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD THE USE OF WATTPAD IN READING COMPREHENSION

This study attempts to seek what components of reading are affected by reading Wattpad and how the students' attitudes towards the use of Wattpad for reading. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. This research is also supported by the theory of reading attitude proposed by McKenna, et.al. The data for this study were collected from two sources, namely a close-ended questionnaire to 20 English Literature students of Universitas Sumatera Utara and supported by interview with 5 out of 20 selected respondents. The results of this study indicate two main things, namely: (1) Vocabulary is the component of reading that is most affected. As many as 40% of respondents chose vocabulary as the most affected reading component, 35% of respondents chose comprehension ability, 15% of respondents chose reading fluency and 10% of respondents chose phonemic awareness. (2) It was found that 10 respondents were judged to show a positive attitude towards the use of Wattpad, 6 respondents showed a neutral attitude and 4 respondents showed a negative attitude towards the use of Wattpad.

The Task Matters: A Scoping Review on Reading Comprehension Abilities in ADHD

Objective: A broad range of tasks have been used to classify individuals with ADHD with reading comprehension difficulties. However, the inconsistency in the literature warrants a scoping review of current knowledge about the relationship between ADHD diagnosis and reading comprehension ability. Method: A comprehensive search strategy was performed to identify relevant articles on the topic. Thirty-four articles met inclusion criteria for the current review. Results: The evidence as a whole suggests reading comprehension is impaired in ADHD. The most prominent effect was found in studies where participants retell or pick out central ideas in stories. On these tasks, participants with ADHD performed consistently worse than typically developing controls. However, some studies found that performance in ADHD improved when reading comprehension task demands were low. Conclusion: Results suggest that performance in ADHD depends on the way reading comprehension is measured and further guide future work clarifying why there are such discrepant findings across studies.

WYKORZYSTANIE NARZĘDZI INFORMATYCZNYCH W PRACY Z LEKTURAMI NA POZIOMIE A1/A2, CZYLI JAK MOŻNA KSZTAŁTOWAĆ SPRAWNOŚĆ CZYTANIA ZE ZROZUMIENIEM W NAUCZANIU ZDALNYM

Refining reading comprehension skills is one of the basic tasks that students of foreign languages and their teachers face. Some of the texts offered in students’ books do not make pupils interested in the topic, motivated or encouraged enough to develop their reading comprehension ability. The reason is that these texts are compulsory students have to read them which thus makes the readings less interesting. Learning foreign languages essentially should be focused on their posterior use in extracurricular, personal and then occupational conditions. Since reading is necessary, then choosing simple books in a foreign language would be worth considering. Such texts may be perceived by the students differently from the compulsory readings in class. What is more, reading didactically adapted, longer literary texts and their proper reception will certainly be satisfying for the student. This article provides the reader with the examples of using simplified readings in the global and detailed text processing which, in turn, takes into account techniques such as pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading. Furthermore, the article presents the ideas of including Information and Communication Technologies in teaching which influences students’ engagement and allows the teacher to monitor their work.

The Correlation Between Perceptions on the Use of Online Digital Interactive Media and Reading Comprehension Ability

The use of online interactive media in English teaching and learning has been significantly increasing since past few years. The media got more popular after distant or online learning was encouraged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergence of digital learning management systems such as Edmodo, Google Classroom, and Moddle further intensified the implementation of not only education-based platforms such as British Council and Quizziz, but also popularized non-education media such as YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter which were intentionally designed for entertainment. This research is designed to foster students’ perceptions on the use of online digital interactive media and correlate the perceptions with their reading comprehension ability. A total of 41 students from different middle and high schools, who lived in various orphanages, participated in this research. Close-ended Likert-scale questionnaire was distributed to obtain the data of students’ perceptions while reading comprehension test was adapted from British Council and implemented to see the correlation between the students’ perception and their reading comprehension ability. The finding shows that more than 75% of the students believed that online digital interactive media were very crucial and helpful in language learning process. Moreover, the mean score of the reading comprehension test indicated positive correlation between students’ perceptions and their reading comprehension ability. This study implies foster students’ perceptions in the use of online interactive media highly correlate with their reading comprehension performance.

UPAYA GURU PAI DALAM MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR MATERI MARI MEMBACA ALQURAN SURAT AT-TIN MELALUI METODE COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) BAGI SISWA KELAS V SD NEGERI 1 SUNGAI AMBAWANG

This study aims to improve the learning outcomes of let's read the Koran Surat at-Tin through the Cooperative Integrated Reading And Composition (CIRC) method for fifth grade students of SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. This type of research is Classroom Action Research with the research subjects of fifth grade students of SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. Qualitative analysis was used for qualitative data in the form of interviews, field notes, and documentation of student assignments. The results showed that the application of the CIRC method could improve the reading comprehension ability and learning process of fifth graders at SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. From the improvement of this action, there is an improvement in the process which can be seen from the condition of students who are more active in learning activities. Process improvement has a positive impact on improving product quality. This is based on the increased reading comprehension test, as evidenced by the average score of pre-action students of 61.58, with the achievement of KKM 57.90%, post-action cycle I of 71.05 with achievement of KKM 68.42% and post-action cycle 2 of 81, 58 with the achievement of KKM 89.47%. ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar materi mari membaca Alquran Surat at-Tin melalui metode Cooperative Integrated Reading And Composition (CIRC) bagi siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan subjek penelitian siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. Analisis kualitatif digunakan untuk data kualitatif yang berupa wawancara, catatan lapangan, dan dokumentasi tugas siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan penerapan metode CIRC dapat meningkatkan kemampuan dan proses belajar membaca pemahaman siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Ambawang. Dari perbaikan tindakan ini terjadilah peningkatan proses yang dapat dilihat dari kondisi siswa yang lebih aktif dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Peningkatan secara proses berdampak positif pada peningkatan kualitas produk. Hal ini berdasarkan tes membaca pemahaman meningkat, terbukti dengan nilai rata-rata siswa pratindakan sebesar 61,58, dengan pencapaian KKM 57,90%, pascatindakan siklus I sebesar 71,05 dengan pencapaian KKM 68,42% dan pascatindakan siklus 2 sebesar 81,58 dengan pencapaian KKM 89,47%.

“Reduced Forms” Influence on Second Language Learners’ Listening Input-Intake Conversion

This article analyses the factors influencing the process of input-intake conversion and focuses on the effect of “reduced forms” on English as a Second Language (ESL) learners’ listening comprehension. The Input Hypothesis, the Noticing Hypothesis, the input-intake relationship, and the factors influencing the input-intake relationship are critically reviewed and analyzed. The empirical study of Brown and Hilferty [1] is reviewed and discussed to show reduced forms’ influence on ESL learners’ listening comprehension. The results prove that integrating reduced forms into ESL lessons is both necessary and meaningful for improving students’ listening comprehension ability.

Penerapan Metode Overview, Key Ideas, Read, Record, Recite, Review dan Reflect untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Membaca Pemahaman Siswa Sekolah Dasar

This study aims to determine the improvement of elementary school students' reading comprehension skills through the application of overview, key ideas, read, record, recite, review and reflect methods. This research is motivated by the lack of students' ability to understand the reading text that is read. This research is a classroom action research. Data collection techniques in this study were observation, students' reading comprehension test and documentation. While the data analysis technique used is a qualitative descriptive analysis technique with a percentage. Based on research and data analysis that the application of overview, key ideas, read, record, recite, review and reflect methods can improve students' reading comprehension skills. This can be seen from the test results of students' reading comprehension before the action only reached an average of 58.42 with classical completeness of 42.85% or classified as poor. After applying the overview, key ideas, read, record, recite, review and reflect methods in the first cycle, the students' reading comprehension ability increased by an average of 72.28 with a classical completeness of 66.66% or quite good. In the second cycle, the results of students' reading comprehension increased by an average of 81.23 with classical completeness of 85.71% or classified as good. Thus it can be concluded that the overview, key ideas, read, record, recite, review and reflect methods can improve the reading comprehension ability of elementary school students.

Conversational Implicature Instruction as a Pedagogical Strategy for English Majors in a Chinese Context: A Pragmatic-Analysis of Its Effectiveness

In English teaching, teachers have always attached great importance to exploring scientific listening teaching methods to improve students' listening comprehension ability. In order to improve the listening teaching mode, scholars in both China and in other countries have done a series of studies. However, there is little research on the effectiveness of conversational implicature in improving listening comprehension ability of English majors. Therefore, through empirical research, this paper explores the effectiveness of applying the Conversational Implicature Theory in pragmatics to instruct English majors to improve their listening comprehension ability, and tries to find an efficient teaching strategy of conversational implicature. The two classes are used as the experimental class and the control class respectively in this experiment. The experimental class adopts Conversational Implicature Teaching Strategy, while the control class still adopts the traditional teaching mode. The results show that the ability of conversational implicature inference of the experimental class is obviously better than that of the control class, which can effectively improve the listening comprehension level of the students. The results of the study provide some enlightenment for the implementation of conversational implicature teaching strategies in similar environments, and some suggestions for listening teaching of English majors are put forward based on the results of the study.