Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap?
Using questionnaires administered to 1114 school students and 317 university foundation program students, the study aims to investigate students’ attitudes towards English as a foreign language (EFL) reading in the two educational contexts: post-basic schools and university foundation programs. The...
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| author | Fawzia A. Al Seyabi Kamla S. Al Amri |
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| description | Using questionnaires administered to 1114 school students and 317 university foundation program students, the study aims to investigate students’ attitudes towards English as a foreign language (EFL) reading in the two educational contexts: post-basic schools and university foundation programs. The study also explores the extent to which students feel school has prepared them to the reading requirements of their university foundation programs. The study revealed that there were significant differences between school students and university foundation program students in the cognitive and affective dimensions of reading attitude but there were no significant differences in behavioural attitudes. Students also believed that they could not transfer the reading skills they acquired at post-basic education to the English classes at the foundation program because reading is different in the two educational contexts. The study makes a number of pedagogic and administrative recommendations to help bridge the gap between EFL reading in schools and universities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9b19bb454014d5cbf0141c7e3c357ae2022-12-22T00:38:11ZaraSultan Qaboos UniversityJournal of Educational and Psychological Studies2218-65062521-70462016-12-0110470671710.24200/jeps.vol10iss4pp706-717941Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap?Fawzia A. Al Seyabi0Kamla S. Al Amri1Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of OmanSultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of OmanUsing questionnaires administered to 1114 school students and 317 university foundation program students, the study aims to investigate students’ attitudes towards English as a foreign language (EFL) reading in the two educational contexts: post-basic schools and university foundation programs. The study also explores the extent to which students feel school has prepared them to the reading requirements of their university foundation programs. The study revealed that there were significant differences between school students and university foundation program students in the cognitive and affective dimensions of reading attitude but there were no significant differences in behavioural attitudes. Students also believed that they could not transfer the reading skills they acquired at post-basic education to the English classes at the foundation program because reading is different in the two educational contexts. The study makes a number of pedagogic and administrative recommendations to help bridge the gap between EFL reading in schools and universities.https://journals.squ.edu.om/index.php/jeps/article/view/985EFL reading, attitude, foundation programs, post-basic education, Oman. |
| spellingShingle | Fawzia A. Al Seyabi Kamla S. Al Amri Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies EFL reading, attitude, foundation programs, post-basic education, Oman. |
| title | Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? |
| title_full | Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? |
| title_fullStr | Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? |
| title_short | Omani Students’ Attitudes towards EFL Reading between School and University Foundation Programs: A bridge or a gap? |
| title_sort | omani students attitudes towards efl reading between school and university foundation programs a bridge or a gap |
| topic | EFL reading, attitude, foundation programs, post-basic education, Oman. |
| url | https://journals.squ.edu.om/index.php/jeps/article/view/985 |
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