The effects of prereading instructions on improving students' reading comprehention

النوع : Mémoire

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of pre-reading instructions on sixth graders’ reading comprehension. This study attempted to answer the following questions: 1) Are the reading comprehension achievement test scores of an experimental group taught a lesson using one of the three selected pre-reading instructions significantly different from the scores of the controlled group taught a lesson using no pre-reading instruction? 2) Are the reading comprehension achievement test scores of a group taught using any one of the three selected pre-reading instructions different from the scores of the groups taught using the other two? 3) Are there any significant differences in the reading comprehension attribute to the sex variable? To answer the questions of the study, the researcher selected an appropriate reading passage, prepared the required pre-reading instructions, and constructed a reading comprehension achievement test. Each experimental group was taught according to one of the three pre-reading instructions, verbal, graphic, and previewing, while the control group was taught without using any pre-reading instructions. Afterwards, students in all groups were asked to answer the questions of the reading achievement test. To describe and analyze the gathered data, the researcher used a t-test, an analysis of variance, and post-hoc comparisons "Newman Keuls”. The findings of the study indicated significant differences in favor of the experimental groups taught using the pre-reading instructions. There were no significant differences in the reading achievement test scores attributed to sex. In the light of the findings, the researcher recommended that teachers should give more attention to the pre-reading stage by using appropriate pre-reading instructions. The researcher also recommended further research to investigate the effects of other pre-reading instructions on the students’ reading comprehension skill.