The Addis Ababa University Freshman Students' Reading Speed in the English Language
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1987-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This s~udy was primarily inta~led to measure how fast
students at the freshm:lD 1 evel read 0 Since it would be
meaningless to evaluate only speeds , comprehension was also
testecL A secondary purpose of the study was to test whether
there .JOuld be significclDt speed performance differonces
bet1rJeen and among subj ects with di fferent reading backgrounds ,.
The sample population, which consi.sted of 120 Social
Science freshmen lVere random:j.y selectedo Then reading speed
and comprehension tests were administered 0 A que'St ionnaire
"Jas also admini stered to the sample population 0
The result of the reading speed tests, which is 96 wop , mo ,
shows that the subjects are desperately slow readers when
compared with both native and non - native speakers of Englisho
H01rleVer, the comprehension result, which is 64%, is rel ati vely
good "
The results of the q uestionn8ire,K·:·C":.·~; In the case of
school locations, indicated no statistically sjgnificant speed
p erformance differences between and among those with favourable
awd unfavourable reading backgrounds .
As the findings show, the reading abilitie s in general and
the reading speed levels of the subjects of this study in particular
have been ignored and there is a need for paying attention
to the problem by people concernedo