Text-Selection for Teaching Reading to ESL Tertiary Students: A Study on Genre and Content Preferences
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2017
Most learners studying English language feel that their educators use irrelevant,
uninteresting, and culturally unfamiliar reading materials for teaching reading. As
a result, most of them struggle to comprehend the English language texts used by
the teachers. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the genre and
content preferences of ESL tertiary learners in UiTM Kedah, Malaysia. A two-part
questionnaire was administered to 132 respondents aged 20 to 23 years old who
are presently furthering their undergraduate studies in Accountancy,
Administrative Science and Policy Studies, Business Management, Industrial
Design, and Information Management. The results of the study show that these
ESL tertiary learners prefer texts from the websites and blogs; and their preferred
reading contents are dealing with Business Management, watching movies and
listening to music. This article offers guidance to ESL teachers to select L2 reading
texts based on the students’ preferred genre and content.
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Authors | Nordin, Razanawati;Eng, Lin Siew; |
Journal | international journal of instruction |
Year | 2017 |
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