Open AccessLiterature Circles: Creating an Environment of Fluency and Fun
Author(s) -
Jahzeel Montero Candilasa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
matters of behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2517-6048
DOI - 10.26455/mob.v8i9.58
Subject(s) - fluency , reading (process) , psychology , intervention (counseling) , mathematics education , period (music) , action (physics) , pedagogy , developmental psychology , linguistics , art , aesthetics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry
Literature circles create an opportunity for students to make reading a fun-filled activity and at the same time develop their fluency skills. This action research examined the efficacy of creating literature circles in the classroom as an intervention program to address students’ problems in reading fluency specifically in terms of phrasing and accuracy. Furthermore, it also investigated the attitudes of students’ toward reading before and after they became members of a literature circle. The study was conducted among 30 grade 7 students from the same section who belong to the frustration level during the oral reading assessment done at the beginning of the school year. Results of the study revealed that there was an improvement in the students phrasing in reading after the 10-week intervention period but not significantly enough to improve their fluency. On the other hand, a significant difference was observed on the students’ reading rate after the intervention period. Furthermore, the students’ attitudes toward reading have also positively changed after they became members of the literature circles. The study concluded that the creation of literature circles in the classroom could improve students’ reading fluency.