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The Effect of the CAREY Program on the Students’ Reading Attitude towards Reading English Materials

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  • Marwan Al-Shawesh
  • Supyan Hussin

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Reading is one of language learning skills which has a great significance for the role it plays in the second language acquisition (SLA) process. The aim of this paper was to examine the extent to which the CAREY (Computer-Assisted Reading Yemen) program affects the Yemeni EFL students’ reading attitude towards reading English materials. To achieve this objective, the data was collected from pre-and post-questionnaires of reading attitude. Additionally, the data was collected based on an interview and an observation. 20 students selected purposively from level one of an English proficiency course, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Ibb University, Yemen in this study. All participants answered the pre- and post- reading questionnaires, and five of them were further interviewed. The study used both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data including descriptive statistics of the responses from the questionnaires and thematic analysis of responses from the interviews. The results revealed that all participants showed their positive attitudes toward reading English materials especially after they joined the class of reading via CAREY program. In addition, it was found that CAREY program positively affected the participants’ attitudes towards reading English materials.

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  • Marwan Al-Shawesh & Supyan Hussin, 2015. "The Effect of the CAREY Program on the Students’ Reading Attitude towards Reading English Materials," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(12), pages 1-98, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:8:y:2015:i:12:p:98
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    1. Talal Alodwan & Mosaab Almosa, 2018. "The Effect of a Computer Program Based on Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE) in Improving Ninth Graders’ Listening and Reading Comprehension Skills in English in Jo," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(4), pages 1-43, April.

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