Efficacy of Reading Strategies for Female School Age Children: Typical Children Versus   Children with Mental Handicap

Article Details

Efficacy of Reading Strategies for Female School Age Children: Typical Children Versus Children with Mental Handicap

Publisher:

University of Sharjah

Journal:

مجلة جامعة الشارقة للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية Vol.12 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000962435

pISSN:

1996-2339

Keywords:

reading strategies, typical children, mental handicap

Abstract:

 The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of  typical female students and students with mental retardation on three approaches of teaching reading comprehension. These teaching approaches were a conventional teaching method, a modified version of reciprocal teaching, and a key word strategy. Two groups of Emirati students were recruited: Group 1 (24 typical female, age range= 7.8-12 years) and Group 2 (12 students with mental handicap, age range= 11-18 years). Detailed procedures were outlined beforehand and implemented by the teachers. Statistical analyses (MANOVA) revealed that

there were significant differences in group 1 students’ achievement on the three teaching methods, F(2,46) = 18.37, P< .001.The Tukey (HSD) follow-up procedure revealed that there were significant- differences at the .05 level between students’ performance on method 1 (the conventional teaching method) and their performance on method 2 (the reciprocal teaching method) and method 3 (the key word strategy); however, the Tukey test did not reveal a significant difference between students’ performance on method 2 and their performance on method 3.

Article Details

Efficacy of Reading Strategies for Female School Age Children: Typical Children Versus Children with Mental Handicap

Publisher: University of Sharjah

Journal: مجلة جامعة الشارقة للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية Vol.12 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2015

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000962435

pISSN: 1996-2339

reading strategies, typical children, mental handicap

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Publisher:

University of Sharjah

Journal:

مجلة جامعة الشارقة للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية Vol.12 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000962435

pISSN:

1996-2339