Morphological awareness and reading comprehension : exploring the effects of direct morphological awareness teaching in the reading comprehension section of TOEIC.
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2019
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As far as reading comprehension is one of the main objectives pursued by any language
course, this paper reports on an action-research project conducted with the participation
of six subjects who were TOEIC candidates at the time. The purpose behind this AR is
to explore the effects of explicit teaching on morphological awareness upon reading
comprehension skills. The six participants attended to four training sessions and the
effects were assessed through the application of a pre and a post-test. In addition,
subjects’ opinions were collected through a survey to provide this research with a
qualitative aspect. Results suggest that explicit teaching of morphological awareness is
an effective method to improve reading comprehension in EFL and the opinions
collected through the survey show that subjects perceived the usefulness of
morphological awareness on their learning process.
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Tesis (Magíster en Lingüística Aplicada al Inglés como Lengua Extranjera)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2019