Critical Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension and Writing Performance of Esl College Students: A Correlational Study (original) (raw)

2016, International Journal of Advanced Research

Reading plays a significant role in students' academic life. Pretorius (2010) found a strong correlation between students' reading proficiency and their academic success by explaining that more reading leads to higher grades. However, in the Philippines, reading is often combined with other subjects which means lesser time for students to develop their comprehension skills (Philippine Star, 2010). This results inpoor reading comprehension skills.Thus, students'performance inother subjects also gets affected.Quijano (2007) describes-reading problems the main culprit for the poor performance of some students in the National Achievement Test(NAT)‖(para.4). In this paper, we explore the possibility of addressing this problemthroughgood reading practices (Duke & Pearson, 2002), particularly the use of critical reading strategies (Salisbury University, 2009; Harvard, 2015). Several scholars have proven the facilitative effect of critical reading strategies on reading comprehension which relates to improved subject area performance (