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Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam

Reading strategies are deemed important in academic reading among English as a second language (ESL) students because these strategies can help them to grasp a better understanding of academic texts. By incorporating the top-down and bottom-up strategies via Rumelhart’s Interactive Theory, this stud...

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Main Authors: Abd. Hamid, Nurul Bazilah, Dillah, Doreen, Subramaniam, Sathiyaperba
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Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Pulau Pinang 2024
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spelling my.uitm.ir.1067372024-11-22T00:39:48Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/106737/ Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam ejssh Abd. Hamid, Nurul Bazilah Dillah, Doreen Subramaniam, Sathiyaperba Pulau Pinang Universiti Teknologi MARA Reading strategies are deemed important in academic reading among English as a second language (ESL) students because these strategies can help them to grasp a better understanding of academic texts. By incorporating the top-down and bottom-up strategies via Rumelhart’s Interactive Theory, this study explored undergraduates’ use of strategies for academic reading. For this purpose, 207 undergraduates were selected using purposive sampling method, while the quantitative research approach was utilised to gauge the necessary data. In specific, a 5-Likert scale questionnaire survey comprising 48 items distributed across 5 sections was administered among the participants. Results indicated that the top-down and bottom-up strategies are significantly correlated in the aspect of academic reading. Important findings from the study are crucial to guide instructors in creating language and classroom interventions with the focus on incorporating effective reading skills that are specifically tailored for better comprehension of academic texts among L2 learners. Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Pulau Pinang 2024-10 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/106737/1/106737.pdf Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam. (2024) ESTEEM Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/ESTEEM_Journal_of_Social_Sciences_and_Humanities/>, 8 (SI). pp. 86-99. ISSN 2600-7274 https://ejssh.uitm.edu.my
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Universiti Teknologi MARA
Abd. Hamid, Nurul Bazilah
Dillah, Doreen
Subramaniam, Sathiyaperba
Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
description Reading strategies are deemed important in academic reading among English as a second language (ESL) students because these strategies can help them to grasp a better understanding of academic texts. By incorporating the top-down and bottom-up strategies via Rumelhart’s Interactive Theory, this study explored undergraduates’ use of strategies for academic reading. For this purpose, 207 undergraduates were selected using purposive sampling method, while the quantitative research approach was utilised to gauge the necessary data. In specific, a 5-Likert scale questionnaire survey comprising 48 items distributed across 5 sections was administered among the participants. Results indicated that the top-down and bottom-up strategies are significantly correlated in the aspect of academic reading. Important findings from the study are crucial to guide instructors in creating language and classroom interventions with the focus on incorporating effective reading skills that are specifically tailored for better comprehension of academic texts among L2 learners.
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author Abd. Hamid, Nurul Bazilah
Dillah, Doreen
Subramaniam, Sathiyaperba
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Dillah, Doreen
Subramaniam, Sathiyaperba
author_sort Abd. Hamid, Nurul Bazilah
title Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
title_short Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
title_full Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
title_fullStr Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / Nurul Bazilah Abd. Hamid, Doreen Dillah and Sathiyaperba Subramaniam
title_sort exploring rumelhart’s model for academic reading among undergraduates / nurul bazilah abd. hamid, doreen dillah and sathiyaperba subramaniam
publisher Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Pulau Pinang
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