TY  - JOUR
T1  - ESL Reading Accuracy: The Inside Story
AU - Rawian, Rafizah Mohd AU - Mokhtar, Ahmad Azman 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 7
SP  - 1242
EP  - 1249
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1242.1249
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1242.1249
KW  - Accuracy
KW  -reading
KW  -in-depth interview protocol
KW  -smoothness
KW  -replacement
AB  - Accuracy has received countless and endless attention from language researchers due to its role in language learning. As such a study is conducted to discover and understand the possible influence of accuracy in second language learning specifically in reading. Its respondents are students who are taking basic English language course. Purposeful random sampling technique was used to single out the respondents in terms of their gender and academic semester. An in-depth interview protocol was used to gather data from the selected respondents. An interview checklist was used to ensure the smoothness of the data gathering. An interview guide was prepared beforehand to ensure all important issues were explored. The interview questions were prepared in two versions: English and bahasa Melayu. The in-depth interview protocol revealed seven factors that affected the respondent’s reading accuracy namely word omission, word repetition, word pronunciation, word-ending adding, word-ending dropping, word insertion and word replacement.
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