The Effects of English Reading through MPCS Program - Focused on Speed, Comprehension, and Efficiency Index

The present research was conducted with the aims of developing a web-based Meaningful Phrase Code Switching (MPCS) Program and evaluating its effectiveness through English reading by college students. The specific purposes of this research were (1) to determine the effects of the MPCS program on reading speed, reading comprehension, and the reading efficiency index, (2) to examine the effects of the web-based MPCS program on the affective attitudes of learners, and (3) to find out the correlations between reading speed and reading comprehension. The research was conducted for one semester and the subjects were 52 students who were taking a foreign language course. All data were processed through SPSS (version 15.0). The web-based reading tests and surveys regarding their affective attitudes were conducted before and after the research. The results were as follows; first, the MPCS program made no significant difference in reading comprehension compared to the paper-based meaningful phrase learning. Second, it also made a notable difference in the participants' interest, experienced difficulty, self-confidence, concentration degree, and self-awareness degree of reading speed. Third, regarding the correlations between reading speed and reading comprehension, reading comprehension had no effect on reading speed.