Students’ Questionnaire
Name: ________________________________________(optional)
Put a check to your corresponding answer
Yes Sometimes No Never
Q1. Are you from English medium school?
Q2. Do you think you are a good reader?
Q3. Tell about you reading habit:
a. Reading English newspaper
b. English Magazines
c. Story books
d. Online Journals (Jstor, Google scholar, etc.)
Q4. Difficulties regarding vocabulary:
a. Difficulty in understanding large words that I
read
b. Forget vocabulary that I learn
c. Have poor vocabulary
Q5. Difficulties regarding comprehension:
a. Have difficulty in grasping the main idea of
text
b. read slowly
c. Have difficulty in identifying the main points
d. Difficulty in comprehending
e. Reread to make sense
Q6. Work Study Habit
a. Read available reading materials
b. Going to the library only if there is an
assignment
c. Reading online when required
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Parents’ Information
Name: _____________________________________________ Age:______Gender: ____
Highest Educ’l attainment: __________________________
Number of Years in Teaching profession: ____________
Q1. Do you think reading difficulties affect students’ performances? How?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q2. How important forming reading habit is for English department students?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q3. Have you ever had any reading difficulty and if yes then how did you deal with it?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q4. Do you assess student’s reading skill?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q5. According to you, what are some causes of reading difficulties among adult students?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q6. How do you prepare your students for any text? Do you ask various questions related
to a particular text in order to prepare the students to read the text
______________________________________________________________________________
Q7. Do you teach various reading techniques in the class?
______________________________________________________________________________
Q8. What are your suggestions for improving reading skill and overcoming any difficulty?
______________________________________________________________________________
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Table of Contents
Title Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ i
Table of Contents---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ii
Chapter 1: Introduction.................................................................................. 1
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The Problem------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1-8
Paradigm of the Study------------------------------------------------------------ 8
Conceptual Framework ----------------------------------------------------------- 9
Statement of Objective and Hypothesis--------------------------------------- 10-11
Importance of the Study----------------------------------------------------------- 11-12
Definition of Terms------------------------------------------------------------------ 12-15
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Chapter 2: Research Design and Methodology............................................... 16
Research Design-------------------------------------------------------------------- 16
Population and Locale of the Study--------------------------------------------- 16-17
Data Gathering Tool---------------------------------------------------------------- 17
Data gathering procedure--------------------------------------------------------- 18
Treatment of Data------------------------------------------------------------------- 18
Statistical Tools Used-------------------------------------------------------------- 18-20
References -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21-22
Questionnaire ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23-24
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