International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
$ Reading speed and note taking speed questionnaires results:
Analyses of both questionnaires were conducted depending on each question from the reading speed
questionnaire with the corresponded question from the note taking questionnaire. Hence results help in drawing
the following salient conclusions:
$ Students are slow readers and slow note takers and the following findings demonstrate the results:
$ Participants’ ways of reading and note taking:
o Most informants 126 (79,2%) are word by word readers (i.e. they pause after each word)
especially those 56 (96.6%) who have never trained their eyes to move very quickly through the
reading material. However, only 33
$ (20,8%) pause after each phrase and 14 (6,9%) students have tried to train their eyes on moving quickly
while reading.
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word by word readers
training the eyes to move
quickly while reading
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Figure 3. Mean frequency of perceived difficulty of the English students when they read in English.
2. The number of students (225 i.e., 85,9 %) who do not shorten words and sentences while taking notes (use
abbreviations ) is larger than those (37 ) who do especially those (208 i.e., 87.4%) who do not ignore, delete, or
skip over words while reading.
Figure 4. Number of participants who use abbreviations when taking notes and skip over words while reading.
$ Interest in vocabulary and comprehension rather than speed:
372