Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study
This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. The ETICOLEC Likert...
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This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. The ETICOLEC Likert scale was originally designed to measure the reading comprehension beliefs of middle school teachers of several subjects. Hence, it was necessary to adapt it to identify the beliefs of pre-service language teachers. A standard procedure recommended by the literature (Prat & Doval, 2005) was used to add new items to the scale and test its psychometric properties using principal component analysis and internal consistency analysis with Cronbach´s alpha. Calculations were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, v. 26). As with the original ETICOLEC, this adapted version yielded five internally consistent sub-scales, albeit slightly different from the original ones. Each subscale measures an implicit theory or group of beliefs about reading comprehension. As a secondary, exploratory goal, we also describe the participants according to their implicit theories. Most participants held implicit theories that are functional for the kinds of epistemic reading tasks required by their university education. However, a large minority did not appear to hold any firm beliefs about reading, suggesting insufficient exposure to various complex reading tasks and genres. This situation must be addressed to ensure these pre-service teachers become effective reading teachers.
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| spelling | doaj-art-98b6bd45583d456185e5060494d143702025-02-11T17:38:03ZengUniversidad ORT UruguayCuadernos de Investigación Educativa1510-24321688-93042023-11-01142Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale studyMoisés Damián Perales-Escudero0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6279-1520Mizael Garduño Buenfil1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2181-1585Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-4952Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana RooUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana RooUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. The ETICOLEC Likert scale was originally designed to measure the reading comprehension beliefs of middle school teachers of several subjects. Hence, it was necessary to adapt it to identify the beliefs of pre-service language teachers. A standard procedure recommended by the literature (Prat & Doval, 2005) was used to add new items to the scale and test its psychometric properties using principal component analysis and internal consistency analysis with Cronbach´s alpha. Calculations were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, v. 26). As with the original ETICOLEC, this adapted version yielded five internally consistent sub-scales, albeit slightly different from the original ones. Each subscale measures an implicit theory or group of beliefs about reading comprehension. As a secondary, exploratory goal, we also describe the participants according to their implicit theories. Most participants held implicit theories that are functional for the kinds of epistemic reading tasks required by their university education. However, a large minority did not appear to hold any firm beliefs about reading, suggesting insufficient exposure to various complex reading tasks and genres. This situation must be addressed to ensure these pre-service teachers become effective reading teachers. https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/cuadernos-de-investigacion-educativa/article/view/3375reading comprehensionbeliefspre-service teacherslanguage teachersLikert scales |
| spellingShingle | Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero Mizael Garduño Buenfil Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa reading comprehension beliefs pre-service teachers language teachers Likert scales |
| title | Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study |
| title_full | Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study |
| title_fullStr | Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study |
| title_short | Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study |
| title_sort | reading comprehension beliefs of mexican pre service language teachers a likert scale study |
| topic | reading comprehension beliefs pre-service teachers language teachers Likert scales |
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