文章基本信息

标题：An Attitudinal Study of the Status of Extensive Literary Reading Programmes in Bahrain Schools: A Study of Two Learning Systems
本地全文：下载
作者：Dr. Saif Al-Ansari ; Dr. Abdul Aziz Bulaila
期刊名称：Journal of Educational and Psychological Sciences (JEPS)
印刷版ISSN：1726-3670
电子版ISSN：1726-5231
出版年度：2004
卷号：5
期号：2
出版社：University of Bahrain
摘要：This study examines the importance of the skill of reading and the role literature can play in contributing to a better standard of foreign language learning process in Bahrain state schools. It also reveals the causes behind the low level of reading habits among the majority of the students in the schools and recommends an urgent need for a constructive supplementary reading programme, (i.e. literary component) to be immediately incorporated in the school English syllabi in the form of both intensive and extensive extra-curricular reading activities. In order to measure the lack of a coherent EFL extensive reading programme, a set of questionnaires were administered to a randomly selected sample of students in two different educational sectors in order to measure the status of their extensive reading programmes in English and also to measure their attitudes and teachers’ role towards the incorporation of a supplementary reading programme in the state schools and that such a programme is in fact what is needed to improve the standard of the Bahraini students in English and that improvement cannot be achieved by solely increasing the number of contact hours the students currently have in EFL.