Developing Reading Comprehension Skills A Study on the First Year Btech Students of SRMIST Using Tech Comp Application and Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL Approach

Abstract

Reading is an effective method for upgrading knowledge largely or contentoriented newlinein the target field. Reading improves the comprehension of a particular newlinetopic and subject. It promotes cognitive ability, comprehension, awareness, newlineperception, knowledge, and vocabulary. Engineering students should strategically newlineintegrate reading, a rational framework, with lab-oriented work, a form of a practical newlinemethod, in the demanding academic regimen. Thus, this study developed and used newline Tech-Comp app to improve reading comprehension skills of the first-year BTech newlineEngineering students to develop content vocabulary and prior knowledge. The study newlineconsisted of 300 first year BTech Engineering participants, where 150 of them newlineserved as a control group and 150 as the experimental group. The methodology newlineincluded the mixed method approach and control group design, where the newlineexperimental group was subjected to intervention, and the control group was given a newlinetraditional customary method of teaching. Questionnaires, tests, observations, focusgroup newlineinterviews, diary were used as the research instruments in this study. The newlinecollected data was analyzed using the wilcoxon signed rank test, friedman test and newlinedescriptive statistics. The results of the study revealed that the first year BTech newlineEngineering learners improved their reading comprehension skills in terms of newlinevocabulary and prior knowledge newline