awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.4, 2014Pp.484-502Reflections on Reading Studies done by M.A Students at Al- UniversityDuring 2006-2014Mohammad HamdanCollege of Languages and translationAl-Imam Muhammad IBN Saud Islamic UniversityRiyadh, Saudi ArabiaAbstractThe main purpose of this paper was to reflect upon the results of a pool of research done onreading education by the master’s degree students (M.A) at Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn SaudUniversity, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between the years of 200-20014. The papersurveyed twenty-nine theses done in this field. The findings indicated that the content of thesestudies varied between reading education alone and reading connection to other language skillswith the majority of studies are focusing particularly on reading connection to vocabulary.Findings also indicated that female students conducted the majority of studies on reading. Wheresupervision is concerned, most supervisors were male professors. The paper explained thediscrepancy of male -female authors and male -female supervisors. In the light of these findings,the researcher provided some recommendations to be considered in related future research inSaudi Arabia.Key words: reflections, Reading, language skillsArab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org484