Conceptual Clarifications on Whatness and Howness of Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This paper examines the concept of reading comprehension using different approaches otherwise known as interactive approach. In the paper attempt has been made to inform the reader that reading comprehension is a complex and diversified activity requiring that the reader pay attention to so many variables especially textual resources and how they are organized in the text for it to be textual material. The paper also draws attention to the fact that when words do not always retain their grammatical class whenever they are used in a text, their meanings change according to the context they appear. The paper also developed what is called assistive technology pointing out the uses to which words can be assigned.