A RESEARCH THESIS ON THE STATUS AND DETERMINANTS OF READING SKILL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF TWO GOVERNMENTAL SCHOOLS FOCUSING ON GRADE FIVE

Abstract

This thesis was entitled as “the status and determinants of reading skill development: the case of two governmental schools focusing on grade five”. The schools was located at the outskirts of Wukro city, in a distance of 825 Kilometers north of Addis Ababa and 45 kilometers north of Mekelle, which the capital city of Ethiopia and Tigray Regional National State respectively. The main purpose of this thesis was to assess and examine the status and determinants of reading skill development: the case of two governmental schools focusing on grade five. The researcher employed both Qualitative and quantitative research approach. Here, the researcher again selects 39 respondents. During the study, the researcher has been used both primary and secondary data sources to collect relevant information related to the title. In addition, data collected techniques such as KIs, FGD, and self-observation as well as Questionnaires were employed. The finding of this study reveals that students’ reading skill status in the two governmental schools was impacted due to the three major factors. Those were student related factors, Demographic factors parent, home and environmental related factors. Due to the above listed factors the students’ reading skill status was very low. According to the finding result, about 85.4% of students of grad 5 that found in the two governmental elementary schools have low status of reading skill ability. For this reason, the students in the grade level that listed above fall on the prepared assessment test. Most of the students especially, those who learn in Kisamet elementary school) were fall to read capital and small letters in the assessment. to overcome those and others problems of the listed schools, directors (school leaders), teachers, parents, woreda educational offices, educational experts, educational cooperators and other stakeholders must involve on the change over all educational intelligence of the children and brings some provision for educational run in the schools.