Date of Award
1993
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Education Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Education
First Supervisor
Dr David Evans
Abstract
This study examined the effect of teaching anaphoric resolution skills on the reading comprehension of Year 10 students with poor reading comprehension. Two direct teaching programmes, an anaphoric resolution programme (A.R.Programme) and a reading comprehension skills programme based on the Unit curriculum objectives of the Ministry of Education of Western Australia (U.C. Programme), were developed and taught to two groups of eleven Year 10 poor reading comprehenders. The two groups were pretested and posttested for anaphoric resolution skill and reading comprehension achievement, and the increases in mean scores were compared for significant differences using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The Anova results showed that the A.R. Programme was significantly more effective at increasing both anaphoric resolution skill and reading comprehension achievement. After consideration of limitations these results are tentatively accepted.
Recommended Citation
Busing, C. (1993). Is anaphoric resolution instruction more effective than existing instruction at improving the reading comprehension achievement of secondary students with poor reading comprehension?. Edith Cowan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/443