A road to success: Strategic approach to teaching academic reading in the English language classes for International relations students majoring in Social Communications and Regional Studies

Книшевицька, Лілія Володимирівна (2025) A road to success: Strategic approach to teaching academic reading in the English language classes for International relations students majoring in Social Communications and Regional Studies «Вісник науки та освіти» (Серія «Філологія», Серія «Педагогіка», Серія «Соціологія», Серія «Культура і мистецтво», Серія «Історія та археологія») (2 (32)). с. 676-686. ISSN 2786-6165

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Анотація

In recent years, universities place more heavy emphasis on developing the ability of EFL students to cope with specialized authentic academic material in order to be successful in the programs of study. Reading complex specialized texts in English is part of the academic load in the English language classes at the Faculty of Law and International Relations of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University in Ukraine. Raising awareness of the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies that International Relations undergraduate students can use in EFL classes in completing their reading assignments seems to be of crucial importance. The present study examines cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies of second year (bachelor level) students of Social Communications and Regional Studies academic programs enrolled in the First Foreign Language (English) classes. The data for this study were collected by means of a well-known reading strategies survey (MARSI) modified and tailored to fit the needs of the study, The correlation analysis and t tests demonstrated that gender correlates with the use of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies. The study clearly indicates the need for raising awareness of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies that the English language International Relations students could use because these strategies are directly involved in cognitive processing of the academic reading materials. In addition, the study generally showed that gender influences selection and use of reading strategies. The results revealed that, in general, females used slightly more often cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies than males. In edition the mean difference between the use of metacognitive reading strategies among males and females was slightly greater than the mean difference between the uses of cognitive reading strategies across genders. The findings further indicate that females used slightly more metacognitive reading strategies than cognitive strategies, and males use more often cognitive strategies than metacognitive ones. That males used fewer metacognitive reading strategies might indicate that they might be better in top–down processing mechanisms, that is in identifying various linguistic signals and arranging them in a sequence of a successful reading problem solving. In addition, males affectively compensate for strategic manipulation of the text by using various cognitive strategies such as activating their background knowledge or schemata. In contrast, as one could infer from the results, females are more detail oriented that males and prefer bottom–up processing of information. That is, they tend to use diverse factors, such as life experiences, cultural knowledge and situational sensitivity during the reading process. They have a better strategic ability and employ metacognitive strategies in order to comprehend the text in a slightly larger degree than males. This gendered approach to selection and use of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies could have useful implications for successful reading group activities in which both genders would complementeach other in the application of text processing skills.

Тип елементу :	Стаття
Ключові слова:	Teaching English: teaching reading: International Relations students: Social Communications; Regional Studies; metacognitive reading strategies; cognitive reading strategies; EFL; gender; MARSI reading strategy survey.
Типологія:	Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Підрозділи:	Факультет права та міжнародних відносин > Кафедра іноземних мов
Користувач, що депонує:	Викладач Лілія Володимирівна Книшевицька
Дата внесення:	25 Бер 2025 10:57
Останні зміни:	25 Бер 2025 10:57
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/51386

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