ENHANCING ENGLISH READING PROFICIENCY: STRATEGY TRANSFER FOR TELUGU MEDIUM STUDENTS

Abstract

This paper focused on the English reading skills of Telugu medium students who completed their secondary school or intermediate education in Telugu medium and joined in English medium for their undergraduate. The primary aim of this research was to assess English reading fluency skills and investigate the potential for enhancing these skills among Telugu speakers through the application of strategy transfer. By using short stories as an intervention for them in both Telugu and English with the same theme as the reading prompt. The findings of this study are the students who came from the Telugu medium background improved their reading skills through strategy transfer from their dominant (Telugu) language to English, they understood the usage of dominant language knowledge in their second language learning.

Key Terms: Dominant language, English/second language learning, reading skills, short stories, and strategies transfer.