Im p o rta n c e o f
Comprehension
Viewing Group
12
What is viewing
comprehension?
It refers to the ability of the participants to
perceive meaning from visual presentations
Viewing is the fifth macro-skill today. It
refersto
perceiving, examining, interpreting,
andconstructing meaning from visual images
and iscrucial to improving comprehension to
print and non- print materials.
active process of attending and
comprehendingvisual media such as
television, advertising images,films,
diagrams, symbols, photographs,
videos,drama, drawings, sculpture and
paintings.
n g c o m p r e he ns i o n i s
Why view i
im p o rt a n t ?
Help students acquire
Develop the
information and
knowledge and skills
appreciate ideas and
to analyze and
experiences visually
evaluate language
communicated by
text and multimodal
others
texts that use visual
Levels o f v i e w i ng
com p re h e n s i o n s
Literal Interpretative
what is actually stated, limited what is implied or meant,
to factsand detail, surface drawinginferences, tapping
understanding only(label, into prior knowledge,
list,name, relate, recall, repeat attachingnew learning to old
and state). Test in thislevel are information and making
objective, true and false, logicaland educated guesses.
multiple choice,fill in the The type of questions
blanks and questions like who, areopen-ended, thought-
when andwhere. provoking questions like
why,what if and how.
Applied Appreciative
taking what was said(literal) comprehension is more
and then was meant by what abstract, based on a deeper
was said(Interpretative) and understanding and
then extend(apply) the evenemotional reactions to
concepts or ideas beyond the the author’s language,
situation. Itinvolves analyzing, ideas,imagery and values.
synthesizing and applying. In
this level, we are analyzing or
synthesizing the information
and applying it to other
information
T ha n k Yo u
GROUP 12
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Aspa
De lg a d o , A m ie l
Ma g o n c ia , Ju l i us
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