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Do you really understand what you read?

Reading is an essential element in language learning. Second language learners may find reading a challenging task since language barriers exist in comprehension and information retention. At any education level, students are assessed on their reading comprehension ability. These evaluations and ass...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Nasaruddin, Sulaiman, Asiah, Kassim
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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L Education (General)
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21281/1/Do%20you%20really%20understand%20what%20you%20read.pdf
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spelling my.ump.umpir.212812018-07-16T04:48:40Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21281/ Do you really understand what you read? Ahmad Nasaruddin, Sulaiman Asiah, Kassim L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education Reading is an essential element in language learning. Second language learners may find reading a challenging task since language barriers exist in comprehension and information retention. At any education level, students are assessed on their reading comprehension ability. These evaluations and assessments come in many forms, such as multiple choice questions and short answers. Strategies like the skills to scan and skim salient information, identify main ideas, use contextual clues and make sense of references in texts are being exposed to students in order to equip them for the assessments. However, do students really understand what they read? Or are they just simply applying all the strategies acquired in answering comprehension questions? A study which involved 60 undergraduates taking reading course was carried out to address these questions. Findings indicate that students are able to apply the strategies effectively to some extent depending on the syntactical and lexical elements of the question formations. The study also illustrates that students may perform well in the test, but lack understanding in the text read. These assumptions elicit issues on the tasks and the assessments to be chosen that may be considered as effective in measuring the students' real reading performance. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21281/1/Do%20you%20really%20understand%20what%20you%20read.pdf Ahmad Nasaruddin, Sulaiman and Asiah, Kassim (2010) Do you really understand what you read? In: Borneo International Conference on Language and Literature, 2010 , Kuching, Sarawak. pp. 1-7.. (Unpublished)
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LB2300 Higher Education
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LB2300 Higher Education
Ahmad Nasaruddin, Sulaiman
Asiah, Kassim
Do you really understand what you read?
description Reading is an essential element in language learning. Second language learners may find reading a challenging task since language barriers exist in comprehension and information retention. At any education level, students are assessed on their reading comprehension ability. These evaluations and assessments come in many forms, such as multiple choice questions and short answers. Strategies like the skills to scan and skim salient information, identify main ideas, use contextual clues and make sense of references in texts are being exposed to students in order to equip them for the assessments. However, do students really understand what they read? Or are they just simply applying all the strategies acquired in answering comprehension questions? A study which involved 60 undergraduates taking reading course was carried out to address these questions. Findings indicate that students are able to apply the strategies effectively to some extent depending on the syntactical and lexical elements of the question formations. The study also illustrates that students may perform well in the test, but lack understanding in the text read. These assumptions elicit issues on the tasks and the assessments to be chosen that may be considered as effective in measuring the students' real reading performance.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahmad Nasaruddin, Sulaiman
Asiah, Kassim
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title Do you really understand what you read?
title_short Do you really understand what you read?
title_full Do you really understand what you read?
title_fullStr Do you really understand what you read?
title_full_unstemmed Do you really understand what you read?
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publishDate 2010
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21281/1/Do%20you%20really%20understand%20what%20you%20read.pdf
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