Improving EFL Learners’ Reading Motivation With Intensive Reading Using “ReadTheory”

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.5296/ijl.v15i5.21389
Salwa al Anqoudi, Cecile Gabarre, Serge Gabarre, Siham Al Aamri
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Foundation students need to pass English proficiency courses before joining their Bachelor program. Omani students are English as foreign language (EFL) learners. Therefore, acquiring reading skills is crucial in unlocking their academic performance. The researchers implemented an online intensive reading club seeking to engage unmotivated students into improving their reading through task-based learning from the ReadTheory website. The objectives were twofold, first to identify factors of engagement in the online intensive reading club leading to improved reading skills, and second to explore how these factors could instill long-term reading motivation. A three-cycle action research was conducted over six months with 10 participants. The systematic thematic analysis of observations, discussions, semi-structured interviews, and artifacts resulted in an in-depth understanding of the demotivation, engagement, learning and acquisition processes. Participation to the intensive reading club resulted in heightened motivation and improved reading skills due to the students’ active engagement in the Readtheory enhanced intensive reading tasks. Authentic and meaningful materials, immediate individual performance reports on reading skills and progress contributed to increased engagement, yielding long-term intrinsic and extrinsic reading motivation. The resulting Online intensive reading model will benefit teachers, students, and stakeholders seeking to motivate EFL students to read in the target language.
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运用“阅读理论”提高英语学习者精读动机
预科学生在进入学士课程之前需要通过英语水平课程。阿曼学生是英语作为外语(EFL)学习者。因此,获得阅读技能对于提高他们的学习成绩至关重要。研究人员建立了一个在线精读俱乐部,旨在通过ReadTheory网站上的任务型学习来吸引缺乏动力的学生提高阅读能力。研究的目标有两个,首先是确定参与在线精读俱乐部的因素,从而提高阅读技能,其次是探索这些因素如何灌输长期的阅读动机。在为期6个月的时间里,有10名参与者参与了一项三个周期的行动研究。对观察、讨论、半结构化访谈和人工制品的系统专题分析导致了对动机丧失、参与、学习和获取过程的深入理解。由于学生积极参与Readtheory强化的精读任务,参与精读俱乐部提高了学生的阅读动机和阅读技能。真实而有意义的材料,即时的个人阅读技巧和进度报告有助于提高参与度,产生长期的内在和外在阅读动机。由此产生的在线精读模式将有利于教师、学生和寻求激励学生用目的语阅读的利益相关者。
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期刊介绍: International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America. Inaugurated by Franz Boas in 1917, IJAL concentrates on the investigation of linguistic data and on the presentation of grammatical fragments and other documents relevant to Amerindian languages.
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