Improving reading comprehension through context clues strategy for the eleventh grade students at Vo Thi Sau High School: Master of TESOL

Abstract

Reading comprehension skills are necessary not only for learning but also for a wide variety of activities in daily life. However, it is an undeniable fact that because a lot of students do not know how to understand reading material, they find reading quite boring and difficult to deal with. Therefore, as the supervisor, the teacher must use some strategies that could help students understand reading texts better. Context Clues Strategy might bring benefits for students in reading comprehension. The goal of this study is to find out how effective teachers use Context Clues Strategy to improve reading skill for students at a high school in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province. The eleventh-grade students at Vo Thi Sau High School were the study's participants. The research method used for this study was classroom action research. The quantitative data was gathered during the tests (pre-test and post-test). According to the study's findings, just 11 students (14.66%) passed the Mastery Minimum Criteria on the pre-test, whereas 53 students (70.66%) passed on the post-test. The results of the study showed that students’ academic performance on the post-test had significantly improved. The comparison between the pre-test mean score (4.86) and post-test mean score (7.41) demonstrated this improvement. Additionally, it is evident from their complete focus throughout the teaching and learning process that students were interested in Context Clues Strategy. As a result, Context Clues Strategy was a useful tool for teaching students reading comprehension.