The Effect of Summarization on the Reading Comprehension of Grade Nine Junior High-school Students

Reading comprehension is central to language and reading is often referred to as the most important of the four language skills for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. In this regard summarization as one of learningstrategies play an important role for getting an improved reading comprehension. Summarizing helps students tocomprehend knowledge, transferring it to long-term memory significantly. Summarizing, which is one of themetacognitive strategies, leads to effective using of mental skills, and increases remembering and understanding. The purpose of this study is to find whether summarization improves the reading comprehension of junior high schoolstudents in grade 9 or not. To do so, 60 students in grade 9are selected and randomly divided into two control andexperimental groups. The homogeneity of their proficiency level was established using a quick placement test (version2). All students in both groups participated in a reading comprehension test as pretest. The experimental group utilizedsummarizing strategy two times a week typically 45 minutes in duration for twelve weeks. After each two week instruction, an immediate posttest was administered. At the end of the treatment, a post-test was administered to both groups. The findings of the study indicated that summarizing strategy has a significant effect on learners’ reading comprehension

کلیدواژه ها:

Reading comprehension ، Reading strategy ، Summarization ، EFL learners