UPM Institutional Repository

Gender, Passage Content and Text Types in Reading Comprehension Among ESL Learners


Citation

Fung, Pau Ling (2008) Gender, Passage Content and Text Types in Reading Comprehension Among ESL Learners. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Abstract

This study examined the comprehension performance among ESL learners. The aim was to examine whether gender, passage content and text types affect reading comprehension of upper secondary school students in Malaysia. The study also investigated gender differences of students’ reading habits. Their favourite reading topics, reading materials and reading comprehension performances (in terms of passage content and text types) were also explored in relation to gender. The samples comprised 162 Upper Six students. Four reading passages of different contents and text types – female-oriented narrative text, male-oriented narrative text, female-expository narrative text and maleexpository text, were used. They completed reading comprehension tasks (written recall tasks and multiple-choice questions) after reading each of the passages. Both reading comprehension tasks were analyzed to investigate if there were gender differences in reading comprehension performance with respect to passage content and text types. The written recall tasks were also analyzed in order to seek if there were gender differences in terms of quantity of ideas and types of ideas recalled. The respondents were also asked to complete a questionnaire.


Download File

[img]
Preview
PDF
FBMK_2008_19A.pdf

Download (426kB)

Additional Metadata

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subject: Reading comprehension.
Call Number: FBMK 2008 19
Chairman Supervisor: Associate Professor Shameem Rafik Galea, PhD
Divisions: Faculty of Modern Language and Communication
Depositing User: Nurul Hayatie Hashim
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2010 02:21
Last Modified: 27 May 2013 07:18
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/4810
Statistic Details: View Download Statistic

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item