Investigating the EFL teachers’ and learners’ attitudes towards the role of collaborative strategic reading in reading comprehension
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2021
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Université Oum El Bouaghi
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Reading is an important skill that students need to master any language and promote the other skills. Indeed, students who learn foreign language encounter many difficulties while reading texts. One of these serious difficulties is the misunderstanding of the texts and how to get a deep comprehension of the passages. Thus, Teachers should adopt various teaching strategies that can help the students to facilitate reading comprehension. Collaborative Strategic Reading is one of the strategies that facilitate the students' comprehension. The current study aims to investigate the role of CSR towards the teachers and students in improving reading comprehension. It was hypothesized that teachers and students will have positive attitudes towards the role of collaborative strategic reading in reading comprehension. A descriptive method has been designed to collect the necessary data from two distinct populations, namely sixty (60) first year EFL students and eighteen (18) teachers in the department of English, university of Larbi Ben M'hidi, Oum El Bouaghi during the academic year 2020-2021. While the independent variable of the study aimed at describing the CSR strategy, the dependent variable consisted in assessing the effect of this strategy in improving EFL students' reading comprehension. The findings revealed that collaborative strategic reading have positive attitudes towards the teachers and students' reading comprehension. The main conclusion drawn from this study has shown that using CSR has a great impact in solving students' problems in reading comprehension. Finally, some pedagogical implications have been made as well some recommendations to instructors as to how implement the CSR strategies effectively and how to make them beneficial for EFL students to improve their reading comprehension.
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Reading comprehension, Reading difficultie, Collaborative strategic reading