awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.4, 2014Reflections on Reading Studies done by M.A Students at Al- University HamdanBELMEKKI & IBRAHIMIThe next step was to sort out the reading studies according to content, year of publication,Dridauthor’s gender and supervisor’s gender.Data AnalysisThe researcher adopted a qualitative method to identify the content of the reading studies and toput them into categories as shown in the findings of the study in the next section. Aftercategorizing the studies according to content, the researcher provided an overview for each studyor a group of studies to find out if they share the same content, followed by the researcherreflections under a title called hotspots.Descriptive statistics was used as an integral component of quantitative to provide an account fordifferences in the gender of authorship, gender of supervisor- ship and number of publicationsper year from 2006 to 2014FindingsQuantitative Description FindingsThis section provides statistical description to the target studies based on the following areas asshown in Table 1: types of content, author gender, supervisor gender, and number of studiesdefended per year.Table 1. Content Analysis of Reading StudiesContent N=29Actual No. percategoryPercentageRDG 29 10 34.48RDG& other Languageskills 29 11 37.93RDG and Attitudes 29 1 3.45RDG other influentialfactors 29 3 10.34RDG & TECH 29 4 13.79Total 100.00Author Gender N=29Male Author 29 6 20.69Female Author 29 23 79.31Total 100.00Supervisor Gender N=29Male Supervisor 29 28 96.55Female Supervisor 29 1 3.45Total 100.00Year of Publication N=292006 29 1 3.452007 29 2 6.902008 29 1 3.452009 29 0 0.00Arab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org487