The use of ICT to overcome class size in teaching reading comprehension
Abdellah Kourkouz
Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics - Reading, grade: Master Degree, Ibn Tofail University, language: English, abstract: ICT has given rise to a host, and ethical issues, and challenges in the use of ICT for education. Especially in the field of reading comprehension in a large class size, several complaints have been registered by both parents and teachers that students’ academic performance and achievement is weak because of inappropriate reading comprehension skills demonstrated by those students and also the large number of students. This research paper is conducted to investigate the challenges of teaching reading comprehension in large classes and to determine the use of ICT to help students overcome these challenges and increase and improve their reading comprehension skills. To achieve the objectives of this study, this survey reviewed the most possible works and studies already done and related to the area of this study. Also, four videos were observed in order to reflect on them in relation to the research problem. The main findings after the observation revealed that the challenges that are faced by students in reading comprehension in a large class size can be overcome through the use of ICT tools. Also, this study showed that the most important prospects of using ICT in teaching reading comprehension included: the obvious improvement in vocabulary building and usage through the use of online dictionary. The study's findings are intended to give teachers and policymakers a clearer view of the difficulties and advantages of using ICT in teaching reading comprehension.
