Ineffective reading takes place if the reader does not understand what he reads. Therefore
it is important for everybody to be able to make sense of what they read.
Teachers often do not pay enough attention to the teaching of comprehension in schools.
Reading comprehension is an aspect that has been the least adequately explained arid
therefore it is the most difficult one to teach. Even students think of it as only another
exercise of English and rush through it just to finish as soon as possible. Teachers hand
back the exercises and give the correct answers without instructing students on how to
improve their comprehension.
By teaching students different reading strategies their proficiency in comprehension may
improve. Most of the students are unaware of reading strategies and they don't know
how to implement them in their comprehension.•
This study offers an empirical investigation into the teaching of four specific reading
strategies to students in an attempt to help them to improve their reading comprehension.
The literature on language learning strategies and reading strategies, as well as the
teaching and learning of reading strategies, is surveyed. The results of an empirical
investigation into the teaching of four reading strategies (guessing the meaning of the
word from the context, finding the main idea in a passage, making inferences and
generalizing) indicate that, although there was only a marginal improvement in reading
comprehension, it is clear that the teaching of reading strategies has enormous potential.
English Second Language teachers may find it worth their while to implement the teaching
of reading strategies to develop their students' proficiency in reading comprehension. / Thesis (MEd (Vakdidaktiek))--PU vir CHO, 1996
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NWUBOLOKA1/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/9959 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Du Plooy, Annelie |
| Publisher | Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education |
| Source Sets | North-West University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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