Meta-analysis of Reading Abilities Factors

Abstract

Reading activity is an active process that requires a continuous process of understanding, evaluation, and interpretation of a message. This process involves a combination of several skills such as linguistic skills, cognitive skills and meta-cognitive skills that help the process of understanding and evaluation can be done continuously. Reading ability, on the other hand, involves the level of competence, skill, or ability of students. This level of reading ability depends on the competency of the student to understand or respond to the reading material. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that there are many factors that influence a student’s reading ability. Therefore, this paper will perform a meta-analysis by using literature review to collect information related to students' reading ability factors. The literature review involved reading and collecting relevant materials or resources in written form such as journals and past studies by scholars from many countries. Therefore, only 44 articles from 2016-2021 with relevant and significant information related to reading ability factors were selected. The results obtained can help researchers mastering the factors of reading ability in more depth. After an in-depth analysis, there are four factors of reading ability that have been identified which is family factor, teacher factor, school factor and students’ factor.