IMPACT ANALYSIS OF TIMED READING INTERVENTION ON STUDENTS’ READING FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION

Economics and Business Administration

Reading is widely known as a difficult aspect for both English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and learners correspondingly in their teaching and learning process. Therefore, the question of how to increase the reading speed while maintaining the reading comprehension remains a troublesome issue.An experimental research project was carried out on the first year students at Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration (TUEBA). Fifty students who joined in this study were divided into 3 groups basing on their reading speed at the pretest: fast, medium and slow readers. The reading activity included two stages, correspondingly, the former covering conventional reading activity while the latter dealing with timed reading intervention. In this study, a pretest, posttest and a reading rate chart were utilized to measure the students’ reading rate and comprehension. As the results shown, both students’ reading speed and comprehension remarkably increased after having timed reading intervention. The fast reader had their highest reading rate and comprehension score among the three groups.

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