Six-lecture strategy in the reading skill

Abstract

The six-lecture strategy is a set of reading strategies used in the educational field. This strategy is used in Spanish to encourage students' reading comprehension. Zubiría (1991) stated six stages: phonics reading, primary de-codification, secondary decodification, tertiary de-codification, categorical reading, and semantic goal. This research is aimed to identify the effectiveness of the six-lecture strategy in reading comprehension. To achieve the objectives, qualitative & quantitative research and a quasi-experimental design was used. The study subjects were forty-four students, to whom a survey, reading pre-test and post-test adapted from the TOEFL reading section test were applied. The subjects were divided into two groups the control and treatment. To identify the learners' reading comprehension, both groups took the reading pre-test. Subsequently, the treatment group had an intervention with the use of the six-lecture strategy, where students were able to use and recognize the six-lecture strategy to improve reading comprehension. In the end, both groups took the reading post-test to compare if there was an improvement or not. The data obtained from the reading tests were analyzed using the Shapiro-Wilcoxon statistic test. Additionally, a survey was applied to students which contributed to achieving the conclusions. The results concluded that phonics reading, primary de-codification, secondary de-codification, tertiary de-codification, categorical reading, and semantic goal influenced the development of reading comprehension