Summarizing strategy and reading comprehension

Abstract

Reading comprehension is the ability to process a text by understanding its meaning. This ability to comprehend a written material is influenced by learners' skills which are decoding, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, critical comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar. Thus, the current research work aims to determine how Summarizing strategy influences learners’ reading comprehension. This research was applied to 27 students of the fifth semester in Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros. Moreover, the treatment was developed over 7 sessions. This research work had a qualitative and quantitative approach and experimental research. A pre-test and post-test were used to assess students' reading comprehension before and after implementing Summarizing Strategy. The reading section from the standardized Preliminary English Test (PET) was applied. In order to verify the hypothesis, the Student's t-test was the method to make the statistical analysis of the results. The findings demonstrated that there was a significant difference in the students' performance, and it was concluded that the implementation of Summarizing strategy influences students' reading comprehension.