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Reciprocal Teaching Procedure: scaffolded dialogue around four comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring strategies

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Description

The Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTP), designed by Palincsar and Brown (1984), is an explicit instructional strategy in which teacher and students take turns leading a dialogue about a text while applying four strategies: "generating one's own questions, summarizing parts of the text, clarifying word meanings and confusing text passages, and predicting what might come next in the text". Instruction is scaffolded: the teacher first models the strategies explicitly, then gradually fades involvement as students take turns as dialogue leaders, shifting responsibility to learners. The article applies RTP as the treatment for improving EFL reading comprehension.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • An instructor who explicitly models the four strategies in early stages before students lead the dialogue
  • Students who take turns acting as discussion leaders as the teacher fades involvement

Constraints

Target Learners

  • intermediate EFL learners
  • students in schools, universities, or private language institutes

Learning Goals

  • reading comprehension
  • comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring strategies

Claims

  • Peer Teaching

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Leila Ashegh Navaie. (2018). The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching on Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 9(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.4p.26
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title Reciprocal Teaching Procedure: scaffolded dialogue around four comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring strategies
description The Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTP), designed by Palincsar and Brown (1984), is an explicit instructional strategy in which teacher and students take turns leading a dialogue about a text while applying four strat...
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