All Analysis of the Reading Skills Employed by Freshman in Reading Amharic and English
| dc.contributor.advisor | Despatie, PhD. Gerard | |
| dc.contributor.author | G/sellassie, Alefesh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-11T07:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:05:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-05-11T07:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:05:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1988-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this study an effort is made to find out whether Freshmen slow reading is attributed to the lack of general knowledge of English or due to the use of Amharic r8ading techniques whil e . reading English. To test this, a questionnaire , reading speed and reading techniques tests were prepared and were administered simultaneously. The researcher selected 120 students at random for the test. However, 119 students participated in the exam. The scores were computed for three groups. The 'ov0rall group' , the 'good' and 'poor' readers groups, and the 'language subgroup' group . From the scores the overall group performed better in reading English and~ reading techniques in English at a statistically significant~evel by 5%. However, since mean values can be affected by extreme cases, the researcher had also tested the two li/xtreme readers, that is, ' good ' and '.poor' readers. Primarily, c ~ computations for good readers in both languages showed that good readers are better at reading Amharic than reading English (221.7 to 177.3). And, the researcher referred to their achievement in reading techniques in both l anguages to check whether slow reading can be attributed to transfer from Amharic to English. It was found that the reading techniques results vlere better in English than in Amharic (of the same individuals). And, the assumption got l ittle support . On the other hand, 'poor' readers have performed , much poorer than ' average' freshmen understudy, in reading speed, comprehension and in reading techniques. The ' good' readers have showed a correlation of (.3, .1) in reading speed and in comprehension in both languages. Furthermore, the subgroups have performed better in reading speed than in comprehension, and the scores indicate that there is moderate correlation between reading in Amharic and r eading in English specially among Tigrigna and Oromo speakers . Therefore , on the basis of these findings studento' slow reading in attributed to lack of comprehension (which is largely affected by lack of language competence) in FL rather than to• transfer of techniques from Amharic to English. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/26403 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Freshman in Reading Amharic and english | en_US |
| dc.title | All Analysis of the Reading Skills Employed by Freshman in Reading Amharic and English | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |