A Preliminary Investigation of Saudi Students Strategies in EFL Reading

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  • Omar Atari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.4.1.12

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Arabic-English Studies

Abstract

This paper reports the results of an empirical study of Saudi Students' reading comprehension strategies revealed through the use of the 'think-aloud' technique. The findings indicate that the subjects of this study tend to employ low-level, bottom-up, language-based strategies. This overwhelming entanglement with text processing at the micro-level such as handling isolated unfamiliar words and phrases gets in the way of utilizing the cognitive higher-level top-down, knowledge-based strategies. The paper calls for well-prepared strategy training programs in the skill of automaticity of local low-level strategies which should be supplemented by extensive reading in the target language..

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2003-01-01

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Atari, O. (2003). A Preliminary Investigation of Saudi Students Strategies in EFL Reading. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 4(1), 191–210. https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.4.1.12

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