Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English
This study focussed on the mental processes bilingual readers used in reading comprehension by looking into the strategies used to comprehend a short story in English and Malay. The participants in this investigation were secondary 3 Malay Language students from the special and express streams. Data...
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| author | Siswahani Saban. |
| author2 | Kamsiah Abdullah |
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| description | This study focussed on the mental processes bilingual readers used in reading comprehension by looking into the strategies used to comprehend a short story in English and Malay. The participants in this investigation were secondary 3 Malay Language students from the special and express streams. Data were collected using think aloud procedures. The readers' protocols in the form of audiotaped individual verbalizations were elicited from the subjects silent reading of a short story presented in Malay and English. The protocols, in both languages were transcribed and analyzed to infer strategies. Of the 9 strategies identified, 2 pertain to metacognitive; and 7 relate to cognitive aspects of reading. The frequencies of each of the strategies used (strategy total) by the readers were scored for both languages. Similarly, frequencies were also scored in terms of degree of diversity of strategies employed, |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/203952020-11-01T06:20:59Z Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English Siswahani Saban. Kamsiah Abdullah National Institute of Education DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Language and education This study focussed on the mental processes bilingual readers used in reading comprehension by looking into the strategies used to comprehend a short story in English and Malay. The participants in this investigation were secondary 3 Malay Language students from the special and express streams. Data were collected using think aloud procedures. The readers' protocols in the form of audiotaped individual verbalizations were elicited from the subjects silent reading of a short story presented in Malay and English. The protocols, in both languages were transcribed and analyzed to infer strategies. Of the 9 strategies identified, 2 pertain to metacognitive; and 7 relate to cognitive aspects of reading. The frequencies of each of the strategies used (strategy total) by the readers were scored for both languages. Similarly, frequencies were also scored in terms of degree of diversity of strategies employed, Master of Education 2009-12-14T09:40:32Z 2009-12-14T09:40:32Z 1995 1995 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20395 en NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 198 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Language and education Siswahani Saban. Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title | Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title_full | Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title_fullStr | Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title_short | Protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in Malay and English |
| title_sort | protocol analyses of cognitive strategies for reading comprehension in malay and english |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Language and education |
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