چکیده:
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 at the pretest 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.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"2 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.
The underlying assumption beyond CSR is the cooperative work in small groups enabling students to read texts more efficiently and employing comprehension strategies to better comprehend the reading material (Vaughn & Edmonds, 2006).
A number of studies demonstrate that foreign language reading anxiety negatively influences reading performance (Sellers, 2000; Shi & Liu, 2006), and that it could inhibit comprehension and acquisition of L1 or L2.
CSR has also been implemented in conjunction with other research-based reading strategies (writing process approach, classwide peer tutoring, making words) for elementary students with learning disabilities (Klingner, Vaughn, Hughes, Schumm, & Elbaum, 1998).
In particular, the current study sought to examine the effect of employing the Modified form of CSR, namely, MCSR (Zoghi, Hazita, & TG Nor Rizan, 2006) technique, on reducing the reading anxiety of intermediate EFL learners.
Instrumentation In order to achieve the goals of the study, two test instruments were used by the researcher: (1) Nelson English Language Test for homogenizing the students’ general English, and (2) EFLRAI as a pretest, and a posttest of reading anxiety.
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the effect of the Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading (MCSR) technique on reducing reading anxiety of intermediate EFL students.
Inferential Statistics: EFLRAI Scores To explore the effect of the MCSR on EFL learners’ reading anxiety in this study, a statistical procedure known as Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was considered appropriate."