Abstract
Reading is an important aspect of the language skills which deals with the interaction between the reader and the text. This successful interaction results in reading comprehension. Scanty background knowledge (schema) usually affects reading comprehension and, reading comprehension failure gives rise to poor reading comprehension achievement. To promote reading comprehension and achievement, the students schema needs to be improved, and to achieve this, Advance organizers which is an introductory instructional strategy has to be employed. This is a very strategic tool for schema enhancement and its components are graphic organizers which incorporate concept webbing or mapping, concept enhancement routines, and related organizers. This can be meaningfully introduced to the students through the pre-reading strategy to improve on the students schema before comprehension tests are given. This study, therefore, examines schema enhancement as a tool for the promotion of student's reading comprehension and achievement. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n26p161
Highlights
Reading is very vital to everyone, especially to students who want to excel academically
Schema enhancement is the strongest means of improving reading comprehension and achievement
Many ways can be employed to achieve this: 6.1 Advance Organizers. This was developed by Ausubel (1960) in a research on introductory instructional strategy that would aid the activation of schema or pior knowledge
Summary
Reading is very vital to everyone, especially to students who want to excel academically. Anderson (2011) holds that reading is not a passive but rather an active process, involving the reader in an ongoing interaction with the text. Richgels in (Maduabuchi 2005) notes that reading comprehension is the result of a successful interaction of a reader with a text. The work shows how reading comprehension involves interaction between old and new information. It focuses on how the readers schemata, or knowledge already in memory function in the process of interpreting new information and allowing it to enter and become a part of the knowledge store. To him reading comprehension is processing written language to get ideas, relating ideas to experience, organizing ideas, evaluating ideas and utilizing ideas For this to be possible, the reader must have intelligence, language and experience. To aid students' understanding in reading comprehension as well as their achievement, their schema has to be properly built and enlarged
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