[ms] The Level of Cloze Reading Comprehension and Its Relationship with Arabic Language Achievement

Abstract

Reading is an active mental process which interprets the written alphabets and words into meaning. Reading is more challenging to the second language learners, including Arabic language learners, because the readers have to use more of theirs interpretation skills compared to active reading in mother tongue language. More often than not, thesecond language readers have to translate the meaning to mother tongue language in order to understand the second language texts. The reading speed in the second language is not as fast as the reading speed in mother tongue language. Therefore, the aims of the study are to identify the level of Arabic language reading comprehension, and to examine the relationships between the level of Arabic language reading comprehension and the Arabic language achievement. The study used the observation method with cloze test procedure as an instrument and selected randomly 60 students as samples. The results showed that the level of the Arabic reading comprehension is at the Moderate level. This level indicated that the students need guidance from others in order to understand the Arabic texts and they cannotdepend on themselves. The study also found out that there is a significant relationship between the level of Arabic language reading comprehension and the achievement. This finding showed that the level of Arabic language reading comprehension contribute to the Arabic language achievement.