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Volume 17:3 March 2017
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Development and Validation of the EFL Reading Questionnaire

Ive Emaliana
Suharmanto

Abstract

This paper deals with the validation of an EFL reading questionnaire and presents the various stages in the validation process. The primary purpose of this study was to modify and validate a questionnaire of factors affecting enhancement in reading comprehension in EFL setting. A group of 212 undergraduate learners of English selected randomly from undergraduate students majoring English consented to participate in the study. The research procedures consist of two phrases as the first phase is the study on the factors related to reading comprehension enhancement by using theoretical basis, the second phase is the development and the verification of the causal model of factors that affect reading comprehension improvement with the empirical data. Exploratory factor analyses were carried out to determine emerging underlying categories of factors affecting reading comprehension improvement. The findings of the first phase were used as the variables for the second phase study. Applications of the measure are discussed.

Keywords: EFL Reading, reading strategy, motivations, epistemic beliefs

The ability to read is a key aspect of literacy and is often associated with academic success in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Reading is quite axiomatic that students gain much knowledge by obtaining information from reading materials to be consolidated with other areas of language in EFL classes as well as exposing students on linguistics features from the reading texts, like sentence types, and dictions. Through reading, students are acquired with study skills like summarizing, scanning, skimming which are pivotal to learning. These are benefits of reading that bring positive effects on learning English. As emphasized by Nordin, et al. (2013), reading had a positive effect on the educational achievement of EFL students.

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Ive Emaliana
Doctorate Candidate in ELT Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
Universitas Brawijaya Malang, Indonesia
ive@ub.ac.id

Suharmanto
Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
suharmanto.fs@um.ac.id
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