Reading, an important component of school education, is a complicated activity requiring various cognitive skills.
There is a wide gap, both in functional aspect and perceptional aspect, between begining readers(or poor readers) and good readers in t...
Reading, an important component of school education, is a complicated activity requiring various cognitive skills.
There is a wide gap, both in functional aspect and perceptional aspect, between begining readers(or poor readers) and good readers in their reading skills.
To narrow this gap and to enhance reading skill of poor readers teaching method of letters and words has been explored. There are several teaching methods of letter: Trial-errer method, Delayed-prompting method, Fading training. Delayed-prompting is the most effective. For the teaching methds of words, two methods are competing each other. However, those two methods should be used exclusively but complemently.
Approach of cognitive psychology for the enhancement of reading skill introduce the concept of meta-cognition. Metacognition means individual's awarness and knowledge of cognitive process. Metacognition in reading complys scanning, skimming, summarizing, rereading, underlining.
In most previous studies, the positive relationships between child's metacognitive knowledge and reading skill were statisticaly tested and accepted significantly. Therefore it is desirable to introduce the theoretical framework of cognitive psychology, especially the concept of metacognition, to school education. In addition, teacher should explore how to apply the metacognitive skill to instruction (especially reading process).