awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.4, 2014Reflections on Reading Studies done by M.A Students at Al- UniversityBELMEKKI & IBRAHIMIDrid3.Al-Eidi(2011)4.Al-Jahlaan(2011)5.Al-Khaleefah(2011)6.Al-Mheidib(2012)7.Ameer(2014)8.Al-Sweelim(2014)9.Al-Shammary(2014)10.Al-Rahmani(2014)The impact of intensiveand extensive reading onreading speed andcomprehensionThe role of the zone ofproximal development indeveloping EFL femalelearners’ readingcomprehensionHow eye tracking couldenhance orthographicreading problemsImproving the readingability of EFL Saudileaners through prereadingactivitiesKWL-Plus as a Meta-Cognitive strategy toimprove the reading skillCognitive comprehensionquestions in two levels ofTapestry Reading SeriesThe influence of schematheory on readingcomprehensionThe influence of schemaon EFL readingcomprehensionFifty Saudi femalefreshmen studentsmajoring in English atImam Muhammad IbnSaud IslamicUniversityFemale participantswho were put into anexperimental and acontrol group took partin the study.A group of 23 studentsparticipated in thestudy.A group of first-yearEnglish-major studentsattending Al-ImamUniversity.A group of collegestudents majoring inEnglish at PrinceNasser SecondarySchool.A group of first yearstudents at EnglishLanguage andLiterature Departmentin AL-ImamMohammad Ibn SaudIslamic University.A group of third yearstudents at Ibn KhaldonHigh School in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.A group of SaudiSecondary StageStudents in the city ofJeddahHamdanimprove their L2 reading speed.- The study main conclusion was thatextensive reading was found to bemore efficient than intensive readingwas.- The researcher’s main conclusionwas that the ZPD improved students’reading comprehension in theexperimental group.- Eye tracking identified students’areas of weakness when readingEnglish text resulting from L1transfer of reading techniques.- The study main conclusionhighlighted the advantages of prereadingactivities in increasingreaders' schemata andcomprehension of the target text.The application of the K-W-L plusstrategy was effective Englishreading classrooms of Saudi collegestudents.- The conclusion was that the twotextbooks had low representation ofhigh-level comprehension questions.Schema theory proved effectivenessin improving students’ readingcomprehension.Reading abilities of the Saudistudents improved due to the use ofschema as a reading strategyTable (2) reveals that the content of the ten studies listed has given a prominent focusto reading comprehension without connecting reading to other languages arts skills.Interestingly, two studies out of the ten were conducted on the influence of schema theoryon improving reading comprehension of Saudi high school students in the year 2014.However, the two studies locations and samples were different; Al-Shammary (2014)conducted his study on a group of high school students in Riyadh city, while Al-RahmaniArab World English Journalwww.awej.org 491ISSN: 2229-9327