An Analysis of the Reading Skills Employed by Freshmen in Reading Amharic and English
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kidane, Asmerom (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | G/sellassie, Alefesh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-05T07:20:01Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:05:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-05T07:20:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:05:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-06 | |
| 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 rl3ading techniques whi l e - reading English. To t es t this, a questionnaire, reading speed and reading techniques tests were prepared and were ad~inistered simultaneously . The researcher selected 120 students at r a ndom for the test. However, 119 students participated in the exam. The scores were computed for three groups . The ' overall group ', the ' goo d' and 'poor' r eaders groups , and the 'language subgroup' group. From the scores the overall group performed better in reading English ana reading techniques in English at a statistica lly significantJevel by 5%. However, since mean values can be affected by extreme cases, the researcher h ad also tested the two ~xtreme readers, that is, ' good' and ' poor' readers . Primarily, C' computations for good r eaders in both languages showed that good - readers are better at reading Amharic than reading English (221.7 to 177.3). And, the researcher r efe rred to their achievement in reading techniques in both l anguages to check whether slow re ading can be attributed to transfer from Amharic to English. It was found that the reading techniques results we re b e tter in English than in Amharic (of the same individuals) . And, the assumption got little support . On the othe r hand , ' poor ' reade rs have pe rformed, much poorer than ' a verage ' freshmen understudy, in reading speed, comprehension and in reading techniques . The 'good' readers have showed a correlation of (.3, .1) in reading speed a nd 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 e ading 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 FLrather than totransfer of techniques from Amharic to English. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28049 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.title | An Analysis of the Reading Skills Employed by Freshmen in Reading Amharic and English | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |