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The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?

Reading stories to children would be a challenging and utmost important activity to enhance learning and understanding a language. Various techniques or activities have been proposed in the literature to make reading an enjoyable activity in the classroom. Amongst the many, reading a big book is one...

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Main Authors: Abd Rahim, Normaliza, Mansor, Noraien, Md Rashid, Sabariah, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy, Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
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Published: The Learner Collection 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17025/1/The%20big%20book.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.170252015-11-30T08:27:16Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17025/ The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations? Abd Rahim, Normaliza Mansor, Noraien Md Rashid, Sabariah Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa Reading stories to children would be a challenging and utmost important activity to enhance learning and understanding a language. Various techniques or activities have been proposed in the literature to make reading an enjoyable activity in the classroom. Amongst the many, reading a big book is one of the activities recommended to facilitate students’ comprehension of a story delivered by the teacher. This paper focuses on the use of the big book in story reading sessions in two classrooms of primary schools in a rural area in Malaysia. The objectives were to assess students’ understanding of the content of or the graphics used in the big book and to examine their comments and opinion on the contents of the big book and its use. One hundred subjects aged seven years old from two literacy classrooms in a rural area school participated in the study. Five other subjects, selected at random, participated in the interview session. Findings of the study revealed that the use of the big book seemed to be of an advantage as it creates fun and meaningful learning of English in the classroom, as well as making reading activity an enjoyable one. The Learner Collection 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17025/1/The%20big%20book.pdf Abd Rahim, Normaliza and Mansor, Noraien and Md Rashid, Sabariah and Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam and Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy and Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa (2009) The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations? The International Journal of Learning, 16 (8). pp. 197-206. ISSN 1447-9494 English
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description Reading stories to children would be a challenging and utmost important activity to enhance learning and understanding a language. Various techniques or activities have been proposed in the literature to make reading an enjoyable activity in the classroom. Amongst the many, reading a big book is one of the activities recommended to facilitate students’ comprehension of a story delivered by the teacher. This paper focuses on the use of the big book in story reading sessions in two classrooms of primary schools in a rural area in Malaysia. The objectives were to assess students’ understanding of the content of or the graphics used in the big book and to examine their comments and opinion on the contents of the big book and its use. One hundred subjects aged seven years old from two literacy classrooms in a rural area school participated in the study. Five other subjects, selected at random, participated in the interview session. Findings of the study revealed that the use of the big book seemed to be of an advantage as it creates fun and meaningful learning of English in the classroom, as well as making reading activity an enjoyable one.
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author Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Md Rashid, Sabariah
Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
spellingShingle Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Md Rashid, Sabariah
Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
author_facet Abd Rahim, Normaliza
Mansor, Noraien
Md Rashid, Sabariah
Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
Subramaniam, Vijayaletchumy
Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa
author_sort Abd Rahim, Normaliza
title The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
title_short The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
title_full The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
title_fullStr The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
title_full_unstemmed The big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
title_sort big book : understanding the contents or illustrations?
publisher The Learner Collection
publishDate 2009
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17025/1/The%20big%20book.pdf
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