Reading Comprehension
29/5/2014
Reading is one of the four language
skills. It is a receptive skill, like listening which means it involves
responding to text, rather than producing it. There are ways of reading ,one of
them is reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is the ability to
read texts, process it and understand its meaning. The ability to comprehend
a text is influenced by their traits and skills, one of which is the ability to make
inferences. If a word recognition is difficult, students use too much of their
processing capacity to read individual words. Reading comprehension involves
two levels of processing, shallow processing and deep processing. Deep
processing involves semantic processing, which happens when we get the meaning
of a word and relate it to similar words. Shallow processing involves
structural phonemic recognition, the processing of a sentence and a word structure
and their associated sounds.
