College and University Fix-up strategies for effective extensive reading more

Wed, Aug 9, 10:00-10:35 Asia/Tokyo

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.