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Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Mai, Magdaline Mbong – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper reports on a needs analysis that sought to explore students' reading challenges as an initial step in designing an appropriate reading intervention programme for first-year Sociology students. The aim of the paper is to suggest conditions for the production of an effective reading intervention programme by determining the needs of the…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Intervention, Affective Behavior, Reading Programs
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Boakye, Naomi A. N. Y. – English Language Teaching, 2017
There have been a number of studies on reading interventions to improve students' reading proficiency, yet the majority of these interventions are undertaken with the assumption that students' reading challenges are obvious and generic in nature. The interventions do not take into consideration the diversity in students' reading backgrounds and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Intervention, Reading Programs, Sociology
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Petchprasert, Anongnad – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study investigated parents' backgrounds and their beliefs about English language learning, and compared the receptive English vocabulary development of three to six year-old-Thai children before and after participating in a parent-child reading program with the dialogic reading (DR) method. Fifty-four single parents of 54 children voluntarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Background, Parent Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Wan-a-rom, Udorn – English Language Teaching, 2012
The study was aimed to examine how EFL learners of English reacted to graded readers in terms of reading strategy use, comprehension, speed, and attitude as well as motivation when control for ability level was determined. Eighty Thai high school students placed into their own reading level of graded readers by the scores gained from the graded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning