Improving Reading Comprehension through Reciprocal Teaching Strategies

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Effects of Reciprocal Teaching Strategies on Reading Comprehension by Norlida Ahmad. The purpose of this study is to investigate how ‘reciprocal teaching strategies ’ could help low-proficiency to improve their reading comprehension . It tries to answers two questions which are can reciprocal teaching strategies help low-proficiency students in the Sixth Form improve their reading comprehension of expository texts, and how do these low-proficiency level students in the Sixth Form respond to the use of reciprocal teaching strategies in their reading comprehension of expository texts. It has been applied it on 68 low-proficiency level students from the Sixth Form from an urban school in Malaysia . This study is quantitative and qualitative. …show more content…

Reciprocal strategy helps students to think before, during, and after they read each text by applying it in the class . By the time, students are able to lead them through this strategy and builds the comprehension skills. It has been remarked that the use of reciprocal teaching fulfils the standard for promoting the effective strategy use when used appropriately. It has been emphasized that strategy instruction is effective when strategy is used within the contexts and students understand the importance of the strategy under what conditions …show more content…

The purpose of the study is to investigate the product and process effects of note-taking instruction with graphic organizers on comprehension and retention in EFL context .It aims to examine the effects of note-taking by gender on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. It tries to answer the following questions what is the effect of graphic note-taking instruction (using graphic organizers) on students’ reading comprehension , what is the effect of graphic note-taking training on students’ retention of materials, is there any significant relationship between gender and the effectiveness of graphic note-taking on students’ reading comprehension, and is there any significant relationship between gender and the effectiveness of graphic note-taking on students’

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