LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:9 September 2017
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Exploring Strategies to Teach Vocabulary to
Disadvantaged Learners

Ammaji Nalli, Research Scholar
Prof. Jayaprada

Abstract

Despite the indispensability of reading as a skill to young adults, this skill continues to remain neglected or only lip service paid to its teaching. There can’t be a better way to emphasise its importance than in competitive exams where students who are technically sound end up scoring poorly in reading section and many students of engineering struggle in their futile attempts to master the techniques of reading. A study was thus conducted to arrive at an informed conclusion about the reading problems faced by undergraduate students of engineering and their attempts to cope with it. Two research questions, namely, the nature of reading problems encountered by students with respect to understanding reading comprehension and (b) the reading attitudes of the students that feed into their reading habits. Questionnaires, reading passages and personal interview formed instruments of data collection

Introduction

It will be in order to recollect why the study was undertaken in the first place with an appositely remarkable observation from DeMoulin and Loye, 1999)

Learning to read is a means to an end. If children have difficulty learning to read early, how can they be expected to excel in other subjects as well? The best prevention of reading difficulties, therefore, is early intervention strategies at the pre -school/kindergarten kevel. Instead of heated debates on which approach is best suited for early reading success, educators should be discussing the most efficient method (s) that produces the best results (p.43)

This is very crucial since reading comprehension is a vital skill that is critical in the educational success of individuals. In the absence of adequate reading comprehension skills, students can suffer all through their academic life. Reading comprehension if not taught or learnt the right way, can lead to a lot of frustration and difficulties later on for students, in their academic pursuits and career. In the area of science, research informs us that many students lack sound knowledge of reading strategies to generate inferences, leading to poor comprehension of science texts.

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Ammaji Nalli, Research Scholar
Department of English
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh
India
ammuskp07@gmail.com

Prof. Jayaprada
Rtd. Prof. of Andhra University
Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh
India

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