A before and after study of reading difficulties of first year teacher education students of Iloilo School of Arts and Trades

Abstract

In this study the major reading difficulties and weaknesses of first year teacher education students of Iloilo School of Arts and Trades were identified. Then the students were given a remedial reading program focused on these difficulties.

Conducted at ISAT, the study was participated in by fifty-eight students chosen from 298 freshmen of the teacher education department. The English instructor of the five sections was requested to identify the slow readers from each section and she recommended fifty-eight students. Twenty-three students who responded to the invitation to attend the special reading sessions conducted by the researcher became the members of the Remedial Group.