Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach

Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach

This article presents a project that explored the effectiveness of intensive reading to enhance reading comprehension with a group of university students in Pasto, Colombia. At the initial stage, a diagnostic test, field notes, and three questionnaires allowed the identification of the students’ nee...

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Main Author: Andrés Insuasty Cárdenas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASOCOPI 2020-01-01
Series:HOW
Subjects:
intensive reading
reading comprehension
reading process
reading strategies
reading techniques
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.518
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spelling doaj-37b5d2c149904fc4ad64c8be3e27e1882020-11-25T01:18:43ZengASOCOPIHOW0120-59270120-59272020-01-012716780https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.518Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading ApproachAndrés Insuasty Cárdenas0Institución Universitaria CESMAGThis article presents a project that explored the effectiveness of intensive reading to enhance reading comprehension with a group of university students in Pasto, Colombia. At the initial stage, a diagnostic test, field notes, and three questionnaires allowed the identification of the students’ needs. During the intervention stage, a set of workshops and reading tests were implemented to reveal the impact of the reading comprehension strategies. In the evaluation stage, four instruments (reading tests, teacher’s journal, students’ questionnaires and pre- and post-tests) were used to collect the students’ opinions and state the results. At the end, findings show that the reading comprehension strategies improved students’ comprehension because it helped them tackle the problems they had before the intervention stage.https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.518intensive readingreading comprehensionreading processreading strategiesreading techniques
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intensive reading
reading comprehension
reading process
reading strategies
reading techniques
author_facet Andrés Insuasty Cárdenas
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title Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach
title_short Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach
title_full Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach
title_fullStr Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing Reading Comprehension through an Intensive Reading Approach
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publishDate 2020-01-01
description This article presents a project that explored the effectiveness of intensive reading to enhance reading comprehension with a group of university students in Pasto, Colombia. At the initial stage, a diagnostic test, field notes, and three questionnaires allowed the identification of the students’ needs. During the intervention stage, a set of workshops and reading tests were implemented to reveal the impact of the reading comprehension strategies. In the evaluation stage, four instruments (reading tests, teacher’s journal, students’ questionnaires and pre- and post-tests) were used to collect the students’ opinions and state the results. At the end, findings show that the reading comprehension strategies improved students’ comprehension because it helped them tackle the problems they had before the intervention stage.
topic intensive reading
reading comprehension
reading process
reading strategies
reading techniques
url https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.518
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