Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension
This paper reports an action research project which examined the foreign language reading comprehension of public school eighth graders who experienced a directed reading-thinking approach with strategies for comprehension and application. The strategies used were prediction, prior knowledge, graphi...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2010-04-01
|
| Series: | Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/13980 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1849400079632302080 |
|---|---|
| author | Luz Marina Echeverri Acosta Maria McNulty Ferri |
| author_facet | Luz Marina Echeverri Acosta Maria McNulty Ferri |
| author_sort | Luz Marina Echeverri Acosta |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This paper reports an action research project which examined the foreign language reading comprehension of public school eighth graders who experienced a directed reading-thinking approach with strategies for comprehension and application. The strategies used were prediction, prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and questions. Data analyzed included participants' perceptions of the usefulness of the strategies and students' work on the graphic organizers and reading worksheets. Findings showed that participants thought that the strategies and an interactive reading task improved reading comprehension. The majority of students used English to answer knowledge, comprehension and a good number of application questions. The answers to the application questions provided by the less proficient students were, despite their use of Spanish, unclear. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-a012c23669444de3a37cd42714577d8a |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 1657-0790 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2010-04-01 |
| publisher | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
| spelling | doaj-art-a012c23669444de3a37cd42714577d8a2025-08-20T03:38:11ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902010-04-01121107123Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading ComprehensionLuz Marina Echeverri Acosta0Maria McNulty Ferri1Unidad Educativa San MarcosUniversidad de AntioquiaThis paper reports an action research project which examined the foreign language reading comprehension of public school eighth graders who experienced a directed reading-thinking approach with strategies for comprehension and application. The strategies used were prediction, prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and questions. Data analyzed included participants' perceptions of the usefulness of the strategies and students' work on the graphic organizers and reading worksheets. Findings showed that participants thought that the strategies and an interactive reading task improved reading comprehension. The majority of students used English to answer knowledge, comprehension and a good number of application questions. The answers to the application questions provided by the less proficient students were, despite their use of Spanish, unclear.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/13980Foreign language teachingreading comprehensiondirected reading-thinking approachthinking skillsreading strategies |
| spellingShingle | Luz Marina Echeverri Acosta Maria McNulty Ferri Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development Foreign language teaching reading comprehension directed reading-thinking approach thinking skills reading strategies |
| title | Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension |
| title_full | Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension |
| title_fullStr | Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension |
| title_short | Reading Strategies to Develop Higher Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension |
| title_sort | reading strategies to develop higher thinking skills for reading comprehension |
| topic | Foreign language teaching reading comprehension directed reading-thinking approach thinking skills reading strategies |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/13980 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT luzmarinaecheverriacosta readingstrategiestodevelophigherthinkingskillsforreadingcomprehension AT mariamcnultyferri readingstrategiestodevelophigherthinkingskillsforreadingcomprehension |