The Importance Of Reading Comprehension Strategies

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Bölükbaş(2013) defines reading comprehension strategy as
Reading comprehension strategies are the cognitive strategies that the reader uses pre-reading, during reading and post-reading to understand the text better. There are some strategies that the reader uses con-sciously and unconsciously… the students use the skills that they acquire in normal conditions automatically and they apply strategies when they face a problem in the text (p.2148)
In addition, he believes that the principal purpose of using reading comprehension strategies is to ascertain that the text is understood accurately and easily (Bölükbaş, 2013). According reviewed literature of this study, generally most researchers and theorists believe that strategies can be categorized as pre- reading strategies, while- reading strategies, and post- reading strategies (Bezci, 1998; Karatay, 2007 and 2009; Lau, 2006; Mihara, 2011; Mokhtari and Reichard, 2002; Özbay, 2009; Sallı, 2002; Shih, 1991; Tankersley, 2003; Yang, 2006 cited in Bölükbaş, 2013).
The history of reading comprehension and writing dates back to fourth BC millennium (Rael, 2004). As these two skills are highly related to …show more content…

Due to their noticeable effectiveness, the need for becoming familiar with these pre-activity is necessary. Furthermore, as learning is a complex process, using novel pre- activity tasks will motivate them. One of the novel pre- activity tasks is using visual aids. In second language learning, using visual aids is an unavoidable strategy which is used in all ESL (English as a second language) and EFL (English as a foreign language) situations (Marquez, Marquez, & Marquez,2000). Visual aids can be defined as using pictures, posters, flash cards, charts, graphs, maps, etc. in the process of teaching. Wright (1990) indicated the importance of using visual aids in EFL/ESL classrooms as 'they are motivating and draw learners' attention'

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