Schema Enhancement as a Veritable Tool for the Promotion of Students’ Reading Comprehension and Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

Reading is an important aspect of the language skills which deals with the interaction between the reader and the text. This successful interaction results in reading comprehension. Scanty background knowledge (schema) usually affects reading comprehension and, reading comprehension failure gives rise to poor reading comprehension achievement. To promote reading comprehension and achievement, the students schema needs to be improved, and to achieve this, Advance organizers which is an introductory instructional strategy has to be employed. This is a very strategic tool for schema enhancement and its components are graphic organizers which incorporate concept webbing or mapping, concept enhancement routines, and related organizers. This can be meaningfully introduced to the students through the pre-reading strategy to improve on the students schema before comprehension tests are given. This study, therefore, examines schema enhancement as a tool for the promotion of student's reading comprehension and achievement.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n26p161