Abstract

BOAKYE, Naomi A.Y.  and  LINDEN, Michal-Mare. Extended strategy-use instruction to improve students' reading proficiency in a content subject. Reading & Writing [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.1, pp.1-9. ISSN 2308-1422.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/rw.v9i1.212.

BACKGROUND: Student reading challenges have been reported worldwide. In many classrooms around the world, teaching students appropriate strategy-use has been a technique used to improve comprehension and improve reading proficiency. However, strategy-use instruction per se may not produce holistic results OBJECTIVES: This article reports on an extended strategy-use instruction to improve students' reading proficiency in a particular subject area. The technique of role-play, as well as an integration of affective strategies, was used to improve the cohort of first-year students' reading of subject-specific texts METHOD: The intervention was conducted by way of tutorials. A questionnaire was used to elicit students' views and opinions after the intervention. The responses were analysed using content analysis of emerging themes RESULTS: Students reported benefiting from the intervention with respect to reading their assigned texts, as well as increased motivation CONCLUSION: It is recommended that strategy-use instruction include other innovative techniques such as role-play to improve students' reading proficiency in a specific subject

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