The Effects of Task-Based Instructions on Secondary Students' Reading Performances

Abstract

The study's goal is to cast light on the impacts of task-based instruction on the reading comprehension of EFL secondary students. The process was undertaken in a middle school in Kien Giang province in 2022. Reading pre-test and post-test data were first employed to gather research data from more than 70 students in a Secondary school. The post-tests were conducted after the pre-tests for five weeks. Then the data was converted into an excel version to be processed. Research results reveal that task-based instruction positively influenced learners' reading performances. The mean scores from the reading post-tests are relatively higher than those of the reading pre-tests. It can be inferred that students who participated in the treatment could improve their reading capability. Thus, having said that teachers used the TBI appropriately, they could scaffold their students' reading performance in particular and boost students' reading competency as a whole.