Teacher Candidates' Use of Questioning Skills in During-Reading and Post-Reading Strategies

Reading is a complex cognitive process in which symbols are perceived through senses and interpreted. By using a set of strategies in pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading, individuals can achieve an effective reading process. To maintain the knowledge after the reading, post-reading strategi...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 46; pp. 4301 - 4305
Main Authors Akkaya, Nevin, Demirel, M. Volkan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2012
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Fictional Text
Informative Text
Questioning Skills
Teacher Candidates
Fictional Text
Questioning Skills
Teacher Candidates
Informative Text
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Summary:Reading is a complex cognitive process in which symbols are perceived through senses and interpreted. By using a set of strategies in pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading, individuals can achieve an effective reading process. To maintain the knowledge after the reading, post-reading strategies such as summarizing, answering comprehension questions about the text, combining and evaluating should be used. Questioning is one of the activities improving individuals' comprehension and high-level cognitive processes in during-reading and post-reading. Questions asked after the reading are important since it facilitates comprehension by enabling the readers to synthesize new knowledge with the pre-existed one, enrich their imagination, and improve their creativity. The aim of this study is to identify Turkish language teacher candidates' level of questioning skills in while-reading and post-reading strategies.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.244