awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.4, 2014Reflections on Reading Studies done by M.A Students at Al- UniversityBELMEKKI & IBRAHIMIDrid5. Al-Sanad(2014)6. Al-Yahaya(2011)7. Al-Tureiqi(2011)8. Al-Sultan(2013)female studentsparticipated in the studyduring their first year inEnglish college.Title: The Effect ofEmail Key-pal Project onthe Enhancement of theWriting and ReadingSkills of EFLElementary SchoolChildren in Saudi ArabiaSubjects: 10 pupilsstudying at a girls’school in Saudi Arabiaparticipated in an emailproject with partnersfrom a Muslim school inCanada.Title: Hyphenation:Organizing NewsHeadlines for ImprovedComprehension. Does itWork?Subjects: A group ofadult Saudi readersparticipated in the study.Title: The effect of usingillustrations on thereading comprehension fEFL Saudi beginnerstudentsSubjects: Forty 7thgrade studentsparticipated in the study.Title: The impact ofUsing Brain-BasedLearning on EFLstudents ReadingComprehensionSubjects: The studysample consisted offemale English majorstudents studying in TheCollage of Arts at KingFaisal University in Al-Hassa,The sample was pre- andpost-tested on their readingand writing skills. Besides,a questionnaire andinterviews were used withthe study participants.The researcher examinedthe readers’ understandingwhen reading unhyphenatedprenominal modifiers innews headlines andcompared it with theirunderstanding of the sameheadlines that had beenhyphenated.Pre- and post-tests wereused to collect data for theexperimental and controlgroup.Pre- and post-tests wereused to collect data for theexperimental and controlgroup.HamdanThe results indicate that the Keypalproject helped theparticipating pupils improve theirreading and writing skillssignificantly more than the pupilswho did not participate over thisterm. In addition, the results frominterviews and questionnaireindicated that the pupils enjoyedthe project.The results indicated that hyphenusage in news headlines wasessential to clarify ambiguoussentence structures andcontributed to a betterunderstanding of news headlines.Data analysis showed thatillustrations had a positive effecton students’ readingcomprehension. Further, thestudents in the experimentalgroup were highly motivated andactive in the class while thecontrol group students wereacting normally.The findings of this studyconfirmed that the students whowere taught readingcomprehension using (BBL)achieved higher scores than thestudents who were taught by thetraditional method.Arab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org496