THE EFFECT OF MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE: THE STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO GRADE 12TH SERABA SECONDARY AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS

DAGNEW, ZELEKE

dc.contributor.author	DAGNEW, ZELEKE
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-04T05:15:56Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-04T05:15:56Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9088
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of morphological awareness on reading comprehension of secondary school students. This research project was mainly quasi-experimental in design. To conduct this study, a total of 82 EFL learners from Seraba Secondary and Preparatory School participated. The participants were homogeneous in terms of age, streams of study, mother tongue, and reading comprehension performance and age range (18-22). Grade 12th students were selected as the participants of the study through convenience sampling technique since the researcher was assigned to teach this grade level. From this grade level, two already existing groups (A and B) were selected on the basis of the pretest and were assigned into experimental and control group. Reading comprehension tests were used as a data gathering instrument. The tests’ reliability were measured by Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and were found to be acceptable .725 and .738 for the pretest and posttest respectively. Teaching material which mainly consisted of morphological units and exercises was prepared and used during the experiment. Independent samples t test was used so as to see if any significant difference existed in the reading comprehension performance of the participants in the pre and posttest of experimental and control group. The results of the pretest showed that there was no significance difference in the reading comprehension performance of the students between the control and experimental groups prior to the experiment. The results in the posttest, however, showed that there was a significant difference between the control and experimental groups in reading comprehension performance. In addition, the correlation coefficient computed showed that morphological awareness and students’ reading comprehension scores were found to have a positive correlation. On the basis of the findings of the study, it was concluded that morphological awareness in the context of reading could have a great contribution in enhancing students’ reading comprehension performance. Based on this, conclusions and recommendations were made.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE	en_US
dc.title	THE EFFECT OF MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE: THE STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO GRADE 12TH SERABA SECONDARY AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US