Utilizing Metacognitive Strategies with Culturally Familiar Text in Improving Reading Comprehension of EFL Pre-service Teachers

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_10How to use a DOI?

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Metacognitive Strategies; culturally familiar text; reading comprehension; nativized and denativized text; student interest

Abstract

Since English has become increasingly global, more researchers in English teaching have seen the importance of combining teaching methods with cultural materials that are familiar and connected to the learners. In teaching reading comprehension, researchers in Iran, the Middle East, and some parts of Asia have been using Metacognitive Strategies with culturally familiar text to develop learners’ reading skills and comprehension. However, not many were conducted in Indonesia. Building on a preliminary study into the effectiveness of teaching Metacognitive Strategies with culturally familiar text in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, a mixed methods study was conducted to examine the impact of Metacognitive strategy and culturally familiar text on university pre-service teachers’ reading comprehension and interest in the text. Seventy-four lower-intermediate pre-service teachers were involved in the study as participants, where they read fifteen nativized or denativized texts that contained culturally familiar or unfamiliar proper nouns. Pre- and post-tests were used to examine the effectiveness of the experiment. The results revealed that students who had a combination of Metacognitive Strategies and culturally familiar text on their reading comprehension outperformed those with no Metacognitive Strategies and unfamiliar cultural text. Finally, it is reported that the students have good interest and engagement with the text that contains familiar culture.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dewi Novita
AU  - Fuad Abdul Hamid
AU  - Didi Sukyadi
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Utilizing Metacognitive Strategies with Culturally Familiar Text in Improving Reading Comprehension of EFL Pre-service Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 105
EP  - 118
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_10
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_10
ID  - Novita2023
ER  -