Nirmaladevi Kandasamy (2009) Using the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues in developing reading comprehension among year 5 learners. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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Abstract
The research is carried out to find out the use of the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues in developing reading comprehension of texts in the passages on narrative genre among the Year 5 learners. This study adopts a quantitative approach - that is veered toward a quasi-experimental design. However, qualitative data in the form of learners perceptions of the efficacy of the technique used is also elicited, with the intention to triangulate the findings obtained from the quantitative approach. The learners were selected from a population comprising of sixty-four Year 5 learners via purposive sampling. Thirty-two learners each were put into experimental and control groups. The learners in experimental group were exposed to the use of the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues to comprehend reading narrative genre while learners' in the control group was taught by using conventional method. The learners in the experimental group were subjected to several instruments comprising of a set of 15-item questionnaire, pretest and posttest and reflective journals. This whole procedure took up one week strategy training for an hour of each lesson and five weeks intervention for an hour of each lesson. The learners in control group were subjected to instruments of pretest and posttest and five weeks of exposure for an hour in each lesson to conventional method. From the pretest and posttest data obtained, it was found that the experimental group learners overall performance in reading comprehension increased after exposed to the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues. Qualitative data obtained from reflective journals also demonstrated - how the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues helped the learners to comprehend reading narrative texts. Responses obtained from learners also showed that the learners' had positive perceptions on the use of the strategy of guessing meanings of words from contextual clues in helping them to comprehend narrative texts.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Keyword: | Contextual clues, Reading comprehension, Narrative genre, Year 5 learners |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB1028 Education research > LB5-3640 Theory and practice of education > LB1501-1547 Primary education |
| Department: | SCHOOL > School of Education and Social Development |
| Depositing User: | RAZALINAH BINTI DARAIM - |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2026 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2026 12:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/45796 |
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