Malaysian high schoolers’ reading literacy performance: Trends and patterns across states
| Autor: | Marlina Jamal, Marcia Jane Ganasan, Nordin Abd Razak |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language
reading literacy media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology literacy performance Language and Linguistics cognitive skills functional literacy Reading (process) Mathematics education Performance measurement Cognitive skill Functional illiteracy media_common lcsh:LC8-6691 lcsh:Special aspects of education lcsh:P101-410 05 social sciences 050301 education 021107 urban & regional planning Educational attainment lcsh:Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Respondent Psychology 0503 education Strengths and weaknesses Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics; Vol 10, No 1 (2020): Vol. 10, No. 1, May 2020; 161-172 Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 161-172 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2301-9468 2502-6747 |
| DOI: | 10.17509/ijal.v10i1 |
| Popis: | Reading literacy is often understood as a basic skill, and it is gaining recognition as the most functional means to educational attainment and individual development. It not only sets a benchmark but also reveals students’ strengths and weaknesses through performance measurement. This paper attempts to investigate sixteen-year-olds’ reading literacy proficiency using a performance band system in reporting their ‘can’s and ‘cant’s in reading. It drew insights from the Text-Task Respondent Theory of Functional Literacy (White, 2011) and the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson Krathwohl, 2001), where pertinent concepts were drawn to address students’ functional abilities. The study involved a total of 813 sixteen-year-old students representing the northern, southern, central, and east coast regions of Peninsular Malaysia (Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, and Johor). A survey research method was employed to capture cognitive competencies that denoted students’ functional abilities when it came to reading literacy. The study measured the students’ reading literacy attainment based on a proficiency scale spanning on five-band levels. The findings of the present study revealed that the majority of the students attained Band 3, where they demonstrated a moderate understanding of texts and were able to integrate some part of texts to infer meaning. The study provides valuable insights to policymakers, educationists, employers in making data-driven decisions to improve educational outcomes. It also attempts to shed some light on the current pedagogical trends and provide suggestive practices in reading. |
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