The significance of the "Pre" strategies in developing receptive skills of Grade five learners

النوع : Mémoire

This study explores the significance of “pre” strategies in the process of teaching the receptive skills, reading and listening. Two sections of grade-five learners, 59 in all, were involved in the study. The participants were assigned to a control group and to an experimental group. Four comprehension sheets were administered to test the efficiency of these strategies. Two sheets targeted the reading skill, and the other two sheets targeted the listening skill. The results were represented numerically in terms of means and standard deviation and graphically in terms of pie charts and histograms. A t-test was used to test significant differences between the mean score of the experimental and control groups of the same text type. Results showed the effect and importance of utilizing “pre” strategies. Thus, learners who received these strategies performed better than learners who did not receive any. The use of “pre” strategies triggered learners’ motivation, activated their schemata and prior knowledge and built background information.