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Using background knowledge to enhance reading comprehension
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22353/MJFLC2018108Keywords:
background knowledge, reading comprehension, previewing, questioningAbstract
Reading and understanding passages is not an appealing task to many learners. They face numerous academic difficulties in reading. In the classroom students can be encouraged to use both bottom-up and top-down strategies to help them to understand a text. However, top-down processing, which focuses on a reader’s prior or background knowledge, is considered as an effective way to read. This article has offered teachers two reading techniques (previewing and questioning) to enhance reading comprehension of students by activating their background knowledge. Teachers may adapt these techniques to their own classes to make them more efficient and beneficial for their students.
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