Text Marking Strategies of Saudi University Students

Abstract

The study attempted to investigate the textmarking strategies used by both male and female Saudi university students. It also aimed at finding out the textmarking strategies they used and the differences between the male and female students in the application of these strategies. The results revealed that Saudi students lacked the proper caliber of using textmarking strategies and needed some practical training. However, the female students did better in their textbooks than their male counterparts. Saudi students preferred underlining to highlighting while marking the texts but failed to distinguish between important and unimportant information. Most of them relied on their mother tongue i.e. Arabic for text comprehension. Also, they used non-generative strategies like underlining rather than generative ones like summarization and annotation..