An Investigation Of Reading Strategies Employed By Trainee Teachers

Feryal Cubukcu

Abstract


Reading strategies vary from comparing and contrasting to organizing information,experimenting with grammar, forming mind mapping, making errors work for them,using linguistic knowledge of the first language in second language, using contextualcues and sentential relations, identifying the grammatical category of words,demonstrating sensitivity to a different word order, making intelligent guesses, examineillustrations and seeing similarities and dissimilarities in the text. This article focuses onthe reading strategies of teacher trainees by presenting the results of the study conductedin a teacher-training department at a state university in Western Turkey. It highlights theimportance of strategy training and why the strategies should be taught to enhance thereading of the learners.

Keywords


reading strategies, strategy training, success, motivation, metacognitive and cognitive strategies

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