International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 11(4), pp.112 -123, August 2023

ISSN: 2360-7866

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijarer2023245

 

Full Length Research

 

 

Effects of Multiple Fluency Strategy on the Oral Reading Achievement of Students with Reading Disabilities in Government Secondary School Utan Jos North Plateau State.

 

Prof. IzukaJ.Iheanacho,1 Dr. Samuel B. Milaham2 and Patrick M. Akos3

 

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Jos. 1Email:izuka2008@yahoo.com, 2Email: samuelmilaham@gmail.com

Corresponding author’s E-mail: pashakos56@gmail.com.  

Accepted 16 August 2023

Abstract

Abstract: The study examined the effects of multiple fluency strategy on the oral reading achievement of students with reading disabilities in Government Secondary School Uan, Jos, North Jos, and Plateau State. Four research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The pretest-posttest control group design was adopted for the study. The population for this study consisted of all Junior Secondary School (JSS) two students with reading disabilities in Government Secondary Schools in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. The sample for this study comprised twenty (20) Junior Secondary School Two (JSS2) students with reading disabilities in Government Secondary School Utan, Jos. This was made up of ten (10) male and ten (10) female students in both the experimental and control groups. The following instruments were used for data collection; Oral Reading Fluency Test and the Informal Reading Inventory. The mean, percentages and charts were used to answer research questions while the inferential statistical technique t-tests and ANCOVA were used in analyzing the hypotheses. The findings revealed that Multiple Fluency Strategy positively impacted the oral reading fluency and comprehension of struggling readers by significantly improving word recognition accuracy, word recognition automaticity, prosody and comprehension. It is therefore concluded that that there was great improvement in the experimental group after intervention using Multiple Fluency Strategy.

 

Key Words: Multiple Fluency Strategy, Oral Reading and Reading Disabilities Economics.

Paper type: research