The Addis Ababa University Freshman Students Reading Speed In The English Language

This s~udy was primarily inta~led to measure how fastrnstudents at the freshm:lD 1 evel read 0 Since it would bernmeaningless to evaluate only speeds , comprehension was alsorntestecL A secondary purpose of the study was to test whetherrnthere .JOuld be significclDt speed performance differoncesrnbet1rJeen and among subj ects with di fferent reading backgrounds ,.rnThe sample population, which consi.sted of 120 SocialrnScience freshmen lVere random:j.y selectedo Then reading speedrnand comprehension tests were administered 0 A que'St ionnairern"Jas also admini stered to the sample population 0rnThe result of the reading speed tests, which is 96 wop , mo ,rnshows that the subjects are desperately slow readers whenrncompared with both native and non - native speakers of EnglishornH01rleVer, the comprehension result, which is 64%, is rel ati velyrngood "rnThe results of the q uestionn8ire,K·:·C":.·~; In the case ofrnschool locations, indicated no statistically sjgnificant speedrnp erformance differences between and among those with favourablernawd unfavourable reading backgrounds .rnAs the findings show, the reading abilitie s in general andrnthe reading speed levels of the subjects of this study in particularrnhave been ignored and there is a need for paying attentionrnto the problem by people concernedo

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