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Subject: Q 2

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Date Posted: 09:18:23 08/22/10 Sun

Diane Malcolm discusses that most part of researches on Reading strategies awareness, Study the pedagogical intervention in English classes. Those interventions can help and direct students for their future readings. But, actually, what happens is that many Academic students from L1 need to read technical texts about their college issues in English. And most of them are not proficient in the language, so they end up finding different metacognitive strategies of reading.
Diane based her research, on the lack of studies about reading strategies of technical academic texts in English, by readers of L1 in Arabia. The author studied a group of 160 students at a medical University in Bahrain and compared academic reading strategies use of readers at a varying initial English proficiency level an year of study. While all students reported high use of strategies overall, significant differences were found in reported use of metacognitive strategies in general and specific strategies related to translating from English to Arabic. Students of low initial English proficiency and those in their first year reported translating more, while upper year students translated less and used more metacognitive strategies.

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