چكيده لاتين :
The Effect of Using Instructional Technology on Pharmacy Students’ Reading Comprehension at Al -Isra University Abstract
The present study aims at investigating the effect of improving the
reading comprehension of pharmacy students at Al- Isra university for
the academic year 2005-2006. To fulfill the aims of this research, a
number of procedures were followed. First, test papers of students of
pharmacy were analyzed to identify the linguistic difficulties. Certain
instructional technologies were suggested to help students overcome
these difficulties. After that, a test was constructed in light of error
analysis in order to investigate improvement of students’ reading ability.
After establishing test validity and reliability, it was administered to a
sample of 25 students prior to an experiment in which the suggested
contemporary teaching techniques based on instructional technology
were applied by the researcher for eight weeks. Then the pretest (renamed
posttest) was conducted at the end of the experiment in order to
measure the progress, if any, the subjects of the experiment may have
made. The findings of the study revealed that the suggested instructional
technologies adopted in the experiment were effective in improving
students’ comprehension of scientific texts. A number of
recommendations and suggestions for further research are put forward.
