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College and University Practice and Strategies Presentation

Cancelled Fix-up strategies for effective extensive reading

Wed, Aug 9, 09:00-09:35 Asia/Makassar

Location: Silang Jana 1

Students often do not engage in reading primarily because of their inability to negotiate with the intricacies they come across while reading. This inability affects students badly during extensive reading as there is little teacher intervention or help extended here. If equipped to bank on effective strategies when one gets stuck in the process of reading, reading transforms into an interesting meaning-making activity. Fix-up Strategies help students develop as autonomous readers – guiding themselves, making necessary self-corrections, and offering positive feedback as they read. The presentation discusses in detail four Fix-up strategies namely “Prior-Knowledge Assessment”, “Think Aloud”, “Understanding Signals” and “Context Clues” to make extensive reading more constructive and meaningful. It also shares the results of the study conducted to find out the efficacy of these Fix-up Strategies among the students of BA Politics (Experiment group) and BA Economics (Control Group) at Government College Kottayam, Kerala India.

  • Jalson Jacob

    I am Dr. Jalson Jacob, a dedicated and student-focused teaching professional with over 21 years of experience in the areas of Teaching, Teacher Training, Material Production, Assessment of Learning, and Research in ELT. I am from Kerala. India