The Effect of Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on EFL Learners' Reading Anxiety
Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسیShabnam Abbasnezhad 1 , مسعود ذوقی 2
1 - Department of ELT, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
2 - Department of ELT, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
Keywords: Cooperative learning, Reading anxiety, reading strategy instruction,
Abstract :
The present study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of reading instructional approach called MCSR- Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on reducing intermediate EFL learner's reading anxiety. Based on a pretest-posttest design, MCSR was implemented with 64 EFL learners at intermediate level. They received EFL reading instruction according to MCSR over two and a half months. A questionnaire called English as a Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Inventory EFLRAI was group-administered atthepretest and the posttest. Quantitative results indicated that participating students demonstrated significant gains in reducing reading anxiety. This study highlighted our understanding by considering the effectiveness of MCSR program and also it elaborated the effects of using strategies like MCSR in overcoming the big problem of reading anxiety among EFL learners as non-native students. And teachers changed the focus of attention from using traditional methods for teaching the essential skill of reading to modern programs like MCSR in order to remove their students' anxiety and stress in reading.
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