Text-based Student Questioning in EFL Settings: Long-term Strategy Implementation in Reciprocal Reading Tasks and Its Perception

• Authors: Anna Kiszczak , Halina Chodkiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It is common knowledge for contemporary teachers at all educational levels that reading literacy and learning attainment require adopting a strategic approach. This article reports the results of the classroom-based study in which a group of English Studies students were guided over a span of time in implementing text-based questions as a component of reciprocal reading tasks. The primary goal of the study was to trace changes appearing in the quality in the use of student-generated questioning in one-term reciprocal reading training and in delayed sessions, nine months later. Some changes were identified in the students’ actual performance by assessing the quality of the questions the students asked throughout the training and delayed sessions. Also, the students’ perceptions regarding the instruction routines they participated in, were elicited by means of two interviews. The article puts forward some important insights from the study for organizing efficient classroom instruction in support of EFL students’ reading and learning achievement.

Keywords

EN

academic reading, reciprocal reading, students’ generated questions, strategy training

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 39-57

Dates

published

2019-12-17

Contributors

author

Anna Kiszczak

author

Halina Chodkiewicz

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/tapsla.7730