Reading strategy instruction through mental modelling  

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Pani, Susmita

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 58 no. 4 (Oct. 2004), page 355-362.
Topik: mental modelling; reading; student method
Fulltext: 2004.4.355.full.pdf (84.51KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ELT/58 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Focus in recent times on realistic pedagogy implies that we can no longer deppen on a transmission model of training, either for teachers or learners. We need to develop strategies that will help teachers and learners to be coparticipators in the learning process. Mental modelling is one technique suggested in this article. It is a technique through which the teacher demonstrates the mental processes of a 'superior' reader while s/he makes sense of the text. Since this makes the processes of reading 'visible' it is easy for the learners to imitate the steps. This article records the process and findings of a study with this technique in a teacher education course. The trainees tried to guess the meanings of unknown words in text and then listened to their tutor's mental modelling while doing to same task. Data was collected through transcripts of group discussions, mental modelling of the tutor, and retrospective notes of the tutor. Findings from the study showed that mental modelling can be an effective pedagogic strategy in Indian classrooms in term of motivating the learners to develop improved reading strategies.

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