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Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
Tamar Chanturia, Eka Kvirkvelia
Ivane Javakhshvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Thinking Aloud - The Strategy of Rearing an Effective Reader
ABSTRACT
In the article is considered one of the comprehension strategies – Thinking-Aloud and is shown what
results can be achieved by using this method correctly and by directing the learning process rightly.
An effective reading does not mean only reading a text and getting the simple information from it, but
comprehending, understanding, thinking and deeply analyzing it. Thinking-aloud method allows students
to be deeply engaged in the structure of the text. By using eight main strategies of good reading, they
fully comprehend it.
During the process of working on the article, we tested Thinking-Aloud method in the public and private
schools on elementary and basic steps (the 2 nd , the 4 th , the 7 th forms). We chose one text for all the age
groups in advance (Gianni Rodari's "Trolleybus #75" (adapted version), acquainted teachers with the
format of the method in details and described the plan of the lesson.
The research has proved that this method is equally effective for all the above mentioned age groups. It
is appeared that constructing of the content of the text in learners’ minds mostly depends on the following:
the teacher should take into consideration the group's particularity, choose appropriate reading strategies
and use them in proper time and way.
One of the major priorities of the educational system is to rear students as good readers. An effective
reading does not mean only reading a text and getting the simple information from it, but comprehending, understanding,
thinking and deeply analysing it. There are some innovative methods of developing comprehension
during the process of reading.
To rear students as effective readers is one of the major components of creating critical thinkers and
creative persons. It will be better to start educating students as good readers from the very beginning.
I. A five main aspects of Literacy
Before describing the method we will talk about the main aspects of literacy as a one of the basic competences.
The first one is recognizing and decoding words. It means that student uses letter-sound knowledge
and makes connections between written letter and a sound; he / she understands the principe of alphabet, uses
it correctly and can read a word rightly. Improving these competences usually starts from the very beginning
period of learning reading and writing.
The important thing for fully comprehending the text is to know the meaning of words and enriching
the stock of words. The teacher should work on different materials to improve learners’ lexical stock. He/she
should explain the meaning of unknown words and phrases in different ways: using contextual keys, giving
an explanation with other simple words, making sentences using new words, comprehending different parts of
the words, using new words and expressions in several situations and etc. [Methodical... 2010, pg. 28].
At the definite period of learning student should read fluently. During the reading silently a fluent reader
recognizes the words automatically, without decoding them and comprehends the text easily. There is no
difficulty for her/him to read aloud, student stops at the punctuation marks and chooses an appropriate intonation
[An effective... 2010, pg. 13].
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