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A Comparison of Reading Models, Their Application to the Classroom and Their Impact on Comprehension
A Comparison of Reading Models, Their Application to the Classroom and Their Impact on Comprehension

Author(s): Vida Škudienė
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Educational Psychology, Evaluation research
Published by: Kauno Technologijos Universitetas
Keywords: Reading models; Classroom; Comprehension;

Summary/Abstract: Reading, an important skill in any language, becomes more difficult in a foreign language. The investigation of expository text comprehension between language groups conducted in 1999 at Vytautas Magnus University and South Carolina University (Škudienė, 1999) showed that the students of both language groups (Lithuanian and English) performed better in literal comprehension tasks. On these grounds, the assumption was made that teachers emphasize a bottom-up rather than a top-down model of reading. The aim of the research was to investigate whether a top-down or a bottom-up model of reading is emphasized during pre-, while-, and post- reading activities at the intermediate level of the English language instruction.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 94-98
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English