تقدير طلبة معلم صف اللغة الانجليزية في جامعة الطفيلة التقنية لمدي وعيهم باهمية استراتيجيات القراءة و ممارستهم لها

Estimation of the students of the English language class teacher at Tafila Technical University for their awareness and practice of the importance of reading strategies

The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which the “English-Class Teacher” students at the Tafila Technical University assess their awareness of reading strategies. It also aimed to identify the relation between the degrees of “strategy importance” and “strategy use” from the students’ perspectives. The participants were 196 students who had finished the Reading Skills course in their study plan. A 39-item questionnaire was developed for measuring the student's awareness. Reading strategy awareness included strategy importance and strategy use for this purpose. The results of this study revealed that the participants rated their reading strategy awareness as high; the students reported high degrees of “strategy importance” and “strategy use”. The results also revealed a significant positive correlation between strategy importance and strategy use from the student's perspective.(Keywords: Reading, Reading strategies, Reading comprehension, Reading awareness, Reading strategy awareness, Awareness of reading strategies, Awareness of reading comprehension strategies).