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 & IBRAHIMIreflects the strong connectivity between reading progress and the other language skills, mainlyDridvocabulary.Table 4. Studies done on reading and other subject mattersAuthor1. Al-Rubei(2011)2. Al-Eid(2011)3. Dawood(2011)Study title briefly&SubjectsTitle: Exploring theAttitudes and Beliefs ofKFU Female Studentstowards Reading OnlineExtensivelySubjects: Theparticipants were 30females majoring in EFLat King FaisalUniversity.Title: EFL Teachers’Perspective TowardUsing the Internet toImprove Students’Reading Skills at theSecondary StageSubjects: Thirty EFLteachers were randomlyselected from six privateand public schools toparticipate in this study.Title: The Impact ofUsing MS-PowerPointon Teaching ReadingComprehension for EFL;Saudi Secondary SchoolStudentsSubjects: A group ofEFL secondary schoolmale students was usedas participants in thestudy.Material and proceduresThe study used aquestionnaire accompaniedby an interview.The researcher used aquestionnaire as a tool tocollect data about using theinternet.Three instruments weresued; students’questionnaire, teachers’questionnaire and post-test.Study conclusionsThe results indicated that EFLstudents at KFU had generallypositive attitudes toward the useof electronic texts in readingonline extensively at their freetime.Teachers’ responses to thequestionnaire items indicated thatthe Internet could contributesignificantly to developing SaudiEFL students’ reading skills.The results indicated Theresearcher stated that MS-PowerPoint is one of the richsoftware that provides teacherswith many possibilities to createand present more interesting,interactive and effective readingclasses.4. Al-Shammary(2012)Title: The Effects ofCooperative Learningthrough SocialNetworking Websites onSaudi EFL Learners'Reading Comprehension,Vocabulary Acquisitionand Motivation to ReadSubjects: Thirty-threeA pre-posttest design wasused to measure thedevelopment in readingcomprehension, vocabularyacquisition, and a pre-posttreatment questionnaire tomeasure the learners'motivation to read.The findings of the studyrevealed a significant differencebetween the experimental groupand the control group in readingcomprehension and vocabularyacquisitionArab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org495