Reading Comprehension:
Ibrahim (1993) defined reading comprehension as the students' ability to read and understand a written English text and grasp the ideas and meaning therein, then reflecting what has been understood and grasped from the reading material presented. While Smith (1978; p.66) defined comprehension as follows:
"Prediction is asking questions and comprehension means getting these questions answered. Comprehension in schools is in the form of test are given always after a passage or a story has been read."
Reading comprehension represents the ability of the reader to scan the text using his eyes to elicit the mai idea of what is beiong followed visually, then working his mental abilities to enable him/her concentrate and focus on details to be able to acquire detals that enable him/her give a synopsis or even a condensed form of what i being read, besides h ability to answer comprehension questions relate to the context, or even predict what may come next. Thus mastering reading comprehension skill means that a reader should be able to recognize the unfamiliar words that meaning may depend on, besides phonological awareness skills should be mastered as well. Such skills enable him/her read fluently which represents a basic criteria for the professional reading performnce.
Ibrahim (1993) defined reading comprehension as the students' ability to read and understand a written English text and grasp the ideas and meaning therein, then reflecting what has been understood and grasped from the reading material presented. While Smith (1978; p.66) defined comprehension as follows:
"Prediction is asking questions and comprehension means getting these questions answered. Comprehension in schools is in the form of test are given always after a passage or a story has been read."
Reading comprehension represents the ability of the reader to scan the text using his eyes to elicit the mai idea of what is beiong followed visually, then working his mental abilities to enable him/her concentrate and focus on details to be able to acquire detals that enable him/her give a synopsis or even a condensed form of what i being read, besides h ability to answer comprehension questions relate to the context, or even predict what may come next. Thus mastering reading comprehension skill means that a reader should be able to recognize the unfamiliar words that meaning may depend on, besides phonological awareness skills should be mastered as well. Such skills enable him/her read fluently which represents a basic criteria for the professional reading performnce.
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