ALOUD READING AND SILENT READING. WHICH FORM OF READING IN THE CLASSROOM RESULTS IN BETTER COMPREHENSION

Whenever they read texts in the classroom, teachers can use at least two forms of reading, one in which one student reads the text aloud, while the others follow the reading and another in which all students read the text silently. Accordingly, students can take one out of three roles in classroom reading: Aloud reader, silent reader, follower reader. We conducted one experiment comparing these three roles, in which 36 primary school students read three texts under the three conditions. The results showed that aloud and silent reading were not different from each other while follower reading was worse than the other two. We derived theoretical and practical implications from these results.