Improving ninth-graders’ reading skills through guided reading approach at a lower secondary school in Hai Phong = Cải thiện kĩ năng đọc của học sinh lớp 9 thông qua phương pháp đọc có hướng dẫn tại một trường cấp 2 ở Hải Phòng

Tóm tắt

Reading is a receptive skill in English learning and many students consider it
 a boring subject at school. However, it is generally admitted that this skill benefits
 learners in the process of acquiring not only linguistic and social knowledge. Being
 good readers likely supports the students to become good listeners, effective writers,
 and fluent speakers. However, an unwelcome fact remains regarding the strategies to
 inspire students in their reading lessons and thereby improve their reading skills. The
 researcher, in an attempt to better her students’ reading skill, conducted this research
 to examine to what extent guided reading approach affects their reading
 comprehension and evaluate how her students thought of the application of this. To
 collect data for analysis, questionnaires, tests and semi-structure interview were used.
 SPSS software was used to analyze the quantitative data while the qualitative data
 were analysed by content based analysis. The findings generally indicate that guided
 reading approach benefited the students and helped them enhance their reading skills.
 Also, the students had positive attitudes toward this implementation. However, there
 remained some concerns about using it and making it fully effective.