ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF PREREQUISITE SKILLS OF READING AND REFLECTING ON TEXT PRIOR TO ABILITY COURSE AMONG PRE-SERVICE TEACHER.

A text permits individual to discuss their thoughts with each other irrespective of the boundaries of place and time etc. For sure, a huge piece of what every individual knows originates from understanding his /her writings. Hence reading a text is definitely a strong way to communicate ones’ thoughts or opinions across masses. In-depth reading paves way for reflecting on a text that helps in developing rational and practical skills for lifetime learning. Hence taking the above target into consideration University of Mumbai has introduced a specialized course named Ability course which is a concrete part of the practicum component of the B.Ed. course and an important part of this course is Reading and reflecting on texts. This course enables students to read and respond to variety of texts in different ways and enables student-teachers to enhance their capacities as readers and writers by becoming participants in the process of reading. The main purpose of this study was to assess the pre service teachers’ level of understanding of the prerequisite skills of reading and reflecting on text prior to the ability course.