THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE THINK ALOUD METHOD İN THE TEACHING OF STRATEGIES METACOGNITIVE READING COMPREHENSION TO INDIVIDUALS WİTH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

45531

The purpose of the research is to determine the problems of reading comprehension in individual with specific learning difficulties, their use of metacognitive reading comprehension strategies and to investigate the effectiveness and generalizability of teaching based on the think aloud method. The research was carried out with three students with learning disability. In the study was used multiple baseline design of single subject designs. To collect data it was prepared nine text and 15 questions prepared based on metacognitive reading comprehension. It was concluded 1-) that is to have diffuculties such as replying (WH) questions in the text, predicting events in the text, remember the sequence of events in the text, inference experienced, and 2-) to have diffuculties to use metacognitive strateji such as making predictions, stimulate the mind, associate with prior knowledge, such as monitoring and correction of the individual with specific learning disorders. 3- ) At the end of the teaching of think-aloud method, it was obtained that level of the comprehension of reading in individual with learning difficulty increase and uses of indivudul s metacognitive reading comprehension strategies. 4-) İn addition the study showed that the participants made significant progress in their ability to generalize strategies to different reading texts.

2180

Learning disabity , metacognitive strategies , think aloud method , single , subject patterns , reading comprehension difficulties

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

2201

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi