THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING INTERESTS, MIND-WANDERING, AND READING COMPREHENSION OF EFL UPPER INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS
Publish place: First National Conference on Recent Developments in English Language Teaching, Literature and Translation
Publish Year: 1400
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 25 شهریور 1400
Abstract:
This study has attempted to investigate the relationship among reading interests,mind wandering, and reading comprehension skill of EFL learners at upper intermediatelevel. In order to conduct this study, ۹۰ upper-intermediate level EFL learners studying at three language institutes in Karaj and Tehran were selected. There were four maininstruments in this study: the Quick Oxford Placement Test (OPT) as the homogeneity test, the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) by Mrazek, Phillips, Franklin, Broadway, and Schooler (۲۰۱۳), Reading Interests Scale (RIS) by Dokmen (۱۹۹۴), and a reading comprehension test. After assuring their level of proficiency, the two questionnaires were given to the learners. In the end, they took the reading comprehension test. By adhering to a correlational design, the analysis of the collected data reveals that there is a correlation between reading comprehension skill and reading interest; in other words, reading comprehension scores increase as learners’ reading interests improve. Also, there is a negative correlation between reading comprehension skill and mindwandering since reading comprehension scores increase as learners’ mind-wandering decreases.
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Mahmood Dehqan
Assistant Professor, the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran,Babolsar, Iran
Fereshteh Azizmohammadi
PhD candidate in TEFL at Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, Iran
Lida Foroozandehfar
PhD candidate in TEFL at Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, Iran