While-reading Strategies and Their Effectiveness on Reading Comprehension Skill: An Experiment on Secondary School Students in Pakistan

Abstract

This quasi-experiment meant to realize productivity of while-reding strategies for the development of comprehension skill at secondary level students of public sector schools in Karachi, Pakistan. It was organized in two secondary schools following pretest posttest approach with experimental and controlled group. The 48 individuals underwent the experiment, who were tested for i) visualizing, ii) Skimming, iii) Scanning text, iv) Vocabulary identification, v) Making Connections, vi) Drawing Inferences, vii) Verifying Details, viii) Evaluating. SPSS and independent sample -t test were the data organization and analysis sources. According to the results, it seems that the experimental group performed better in the English reading comprehension test when compared to the control group. The suggested strategies were only introduced to the experimental group and not to the control group, which could be the reason for the difference in performance. Keywords: , , i) visualizing, ii) Skimming, iii) Scanning text, iv) Vocabulary identification, v) Making Connections, vi) Drawing Inferences, vii) Verifying Details, viii) Evaluating.