The Effects of Q: Skills for Success (Reading and Writing) Level 2 on Improving EFL University Students' Reading Skills
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https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1504.22Keywords:
Q: Skills for Success, syllabus features, reading strategiesAbstract
The study aimed to identify the effect of the Q: Skills For Success Level 2 course book on students learning, elicit the good merits of the book, and discover whether the reading strategies improved the students’ reading skills. The data of the experimental study was collected from both pretests and posttests administered to three groups of students: 14 engineering students in the first group and 22 health students in the second and third groups. Results showed that there was a very slight difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the group of engineering students (t13 = -7.214, p < 0.005). Likewise, there was also a slight difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the group of health students (t21 = -13.153, p < 0.005). However, there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the third group of health students (t14 = -19.255, p < 0.005). The findings indicated that there were positive effects on students taught from the Q: Skills for Success Level 2 course book. All in all, students benefitted from learning from the Q: Skills for Success Level 2 course book. Moreover, the reading strategies taken from the Q: Skills for Success Level 2 course book moderately improved students learning.
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