Part 3

International Journal of Text-Selection for Teaching Reading to ESL Tertiary Students: A Study on Genre and Content Preferences

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Today, I wanna continue about the previous discussion about this journal, that is about methodology. So, keep stay tune guys^^

Part 6 : Methodology

In this part discuss about the methodology that author used to collect datas. The author used a questionnaire.

Respondents

The author ask 132 Malay learners with the aged between 21 to 23 years old at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kedah, Northern Malaysia. They are 21.2 percent of the students were male and 78.8 percent of them were female. They are studying degree in semester four and five. They are from Faculty of Accounting, Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Arts and Design, Faculty of Information Management, and lastly Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies.

Questionnaire

The author asked the respondent to complete the questionnaire in their classroom. The questionnaire was taken from a reference book with the title Teaching Readers of English Students, Texts, and Contexts (Hegdcock & Ferris, 2009) that consist of 7sections. The author choose this questionnaire because it corresponds with the author’ purposes; and the test is designed for tertiary learners.

The first section focused on collecting the background information about the respondents such as name, number of years of studying English, faculty and degree programmes and their favourite pastimes and interests. The second section focused on collecting learners’ genre preferences towards reading second language. The third section focused on investigating learners’ content preferences towards reading second language. It was divided into two sub-sections, that are preferences of studies for future career and preferences of issues, pastimes or interest.

So, this is the model of the study:

I think that’s enough for today. I will share you for the other parts next week. I’m sorry if there are soo many mistakes.

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