Giving Topic or Genre Familiarity in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Male and Female Students

Anwar Hafidzi, Sovia Rahmaniah, Wahyudin

2018

Abstract

Some studies which are concerned with finding the reason why females and males have different reading comprehension discover two possible factors. The factors are topic and genre familiarity. This study is focused in finding the relationship of topic familiarity, genre familiarity, and reading comprehension across gender. Besides to find the existence of relationship between variables, the researcher also worked to find the strongest factor in affecting reading comprehension across gender. 157 participants were involved in this study. They were 123 females and 34 males from English Department in State University of Malang. This study found that the more the students familiar with the topic, the better they are reading comprehension. However, there is no significant relationship between genre familiarity and reading comprehension. Topic familiarity also became the strongest factor affecting reading comprehension.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hafidzi A., Rahmaniah S. and Wahyudin. (2018). Giving Topic or Genre Familiarity in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Male and Female Students.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2900-2906. DOI: 10.5220/0009915729002906

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Anwar Hafidzi and Sovia Rahmaniah and Wahyudin},
title={Giving Topic or Genre Familiarity in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Male and Female Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2900-2906},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009915729002906},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Giving Topic or Genre Familiarity in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Male and Female Students
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Hafidzi A.
AU - Rahmaniah S.
AU - Wahyudin.
PY - 2018
SP - 2900
EP - 2906
DO - 10.5220/0009915729002906