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Reading is considered as a highly complex process which involves an active interaction between the reader and the text within a larger socio-cultural context. Critical reading is related to the thinking process of the readers and requires a deeper engagement with the text. It goes beyond mere understanding of the words printed on a page and thus, indulges in the process of analysing, interpreting and sometimes even evaluating the text. Cultural schemata can be perceived as the existing...
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The importance and benefits of critical reading (CR) in the study of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are often emphasized by scholars, particularly in relation to extensive reading (ER). However, some related studies show that the Chinese ER textbooks do not pay much attention to CR, which indicates that students lack sufficient materials to foster their CR ability. Combining these aspects, this research aims to find the feasibility of using supplementary materials to foster CR ability in...
Topics: Supplementary Materials, critical reading, extensive reading.
Folk literature has come to be identified as one of the priceless resources of an indigenous community. Folk literature not only reflects but also carries special characteristics peculiar to a respective indigenous community which bears its witness since the time it has displayed its existence. In this context, Assamese Marriage songs are one type of Folk literature which falls into this mentioned description. These folk songs are called Marriage songs as they are sung or played only on...
Topics: Assamese Marriage Songs, Socio-Cultural Life, Reflection, Ethos & Critical Reading
AN ADDRESS FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS IS PRESENTED WHICH CONSIDERS THE NATURE OF COMPREHENSION AND THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN TEACHING CHILDREN TO COMPREHEND WHAT THEY READ. A REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH ON COMPREHENSION SINCE 1960 IS GIVEN. THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED--THE PROCESS OF COMPREHENDING, THE KINDS OF COMPREHENSION, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPREHENSION AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, AND THE PLACE OF WORD PERCEPTION IN COMPREHENSION. SOME APPLICATIONS OF WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT COMPREHENSION TO...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Creative...
The present study attempts to examine how the stylistic aspects of Text World Theory (TWT) can be used in Literature and Language Teaching classrooms in order to help students to improve their critical understanding and interpretation. The pedagogical stylistic application of this theory can enhance ELT students' language awareness, creative reading skills as well as reader-response skills and deepen the interaction between readers and texts. The study focuses initially on the efficacy of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Literary Genres, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language...
Purpose: This study aimed to measure the effect of the critical literacy approach on pre-service language teachers' critical reading skills. The critical reading skills measured consisted of six levels: interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and self-regulation. Research Methods: This study was designed as a quasi-experiment which involved 56 pre-service teachers studying at the Indonesian Language Teaching Department, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia. Research data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Critical Reading, Reading...
The 2010's are when information and informatics age coexist, information overload has been transformed into a mass engineering tool, "imposing bombardment" has become the norm. The most influential tool of this cultural-industrial act is news media. Efforts to educate young adults, who are most active in touch with information, in view of news media are needed. Skepticism has the potential to improve news media literacy of young adults. The present study investigates whether young...
Topics: ERIC Archive, News Reporting, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Prediction, Psychological...
A fresh look at the reader response theory to enhance student comprehension through meaningful interactions with literature, this paper explores the instructional implications of a reader response approach in secondary classrooms and examines its role in fostering students' critical reading and thinking skills. The approach promotes transaction between readers and texts as readers are given the freedom to analyze literary pieces based on their personal experiences, diverse cultures, and unique...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reader Response, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading...
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the multimodal literacy of pre-service teachers and their perception of self-efficacy in critical reading. At the same time, it is to what extent their multimodal literacy levels predict their perception of self-efficacy in critical reading. 337 students were chosen via convenience sampling for this study which was designed on the basis of relational survey model. The data which is needed to answer the relevant questions in our...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correlation, Multiple Literacies, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self...
Academic reading is different from other forms of reading because it is complex and discipline-specific. It involves a measured, challenging, and multifaceted process in which students are dynamically engaged with a range of reading strategies. Academic reading improvement is possible, provided students work on it and there are no short cuts or remedies which will cure the reading problems. Reading improvement is hard work and a difficult task, but it is rewarding as well. This study examined...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, College Graduates,...
The study is dedicated to the impact of the speed and the acceleration on the preservation of the information equilibrium and the ability for critical thinking in the active person. The methods about the fast reading training are subjected to a critical analysis. On the grounds of the theory for the information equilibrium and the philosophy of the slow media, is derived the relation "slow reading--information equilibrium". "Information equilibrium" is defined as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Speed Reading, Reading Rate, Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, Misconceptions,...
This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students' critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement, development and implementation of active reading assignments and assessments, peer-led team learning, and the dissemination of discipline-specific...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement, Teacher...
Purpose: The study sought to determine the hierarchical nature of reading skills. Whether reading is a "unitary" or "multi-divisible" skill is still a contentious issue. So is the hierarchical order of reading skills. Determining the hierarchy of reading skills is challenging as item difficulty is greatly influenced by factors related to test characteristics. To examine the interaction between these factors and item difficulty, and determine the possibility of such a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Tests, Test Items, Reading...
An effective reading comprehension process demands a strategy to enhance the cognitive ability to digest text information in the effort to elicit meaning contextually. In addition, the role of emotions also influences the efficacy of this process, especially in narrative text comprehension. This quasi-experimental study aims to observe students' performance in the Reading Comprehension Test resulting from Emotional Literacy-Based Reading Comprehension Strategy (ELBRCS), which is a combination...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Emotional Development, Intervention,...
The study was an attempt to measure the effect of critical reading strategies, namely; re-reading, questioning and annotating on recall and retention of collocations by intermediate Iranian EFL learners. To this end, Nelson proficiency test was administered to ninety (n = 90) Iranian EFL learners studying at Zaban Sara language institute in Esfahan, Iran. Sixty (n = 60) language learners were selected based on their scores on Nelson test. A pretest of collocation was administered to these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning,...
At California State University, Northridge (CSUN), many students lack the skills needed to locate, analyze, and apply essential contexts associated with primary sources. Using these sources requires critical inquiry, which is a fundamental theme in pedagogy, the California State University system's Core Competencies, and the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The authors piloted a Guided Resource Inquiry (GRI) tool that enables...
Topics: ERIC Archive, State Universities, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Developed Materials, Assignments,...
What happens when students become better readers? Cultivating deep reading habits in students to help them navigate disciplinary cultures respects student autonomy. Scholarly literature predicts that three linked practices improve student reading: practice with feedback, explicit in-class work on reading strategies, and disciplinary norm discussions. To see what happens when students engage in these practices, I studied two years of students in an American Political Thought (APT) course,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Reading Habits, Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Feedback...
The purpose of a "Critical and Creative" approach to literacy is not to place the burden of our responsibility on students, but rather to liberate them from the feeling of being trapped by unmalleable, self-defeating circumstances. Through actual demonstration and experience, teachers need to give students the confidence that they are indeed the protagonists of their lives, that they can improve their present environment, their human relationships, and their emotional responsiveness....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Literacy, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Critical Reading, Oral...
This article examines the intersection of the scholarship on ePortfolio and history pedagogy through an analysis of the success of the integration of Digication's Conversations feature into history courses at Bronx Community College (BCC). History professors at BCC have used the feature, which allows people to highlight and comment on text and respond to comments, to have students contribute to group analyses of primary source documents. This exercise combines the active learning, reflection,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, History Instruction, Critical Reading,...
The affordances of learning analytics (LA) tools and solutions are being increasingly harnessed for enhancing 21st century pedagogical and learning strategies and outcomes. However, use cases and empirical understandings of students' experiences with LA tools and environments aimed at fostering 21st century literacies, especially in the K-12 schooling sector and in Asian education contexts remain relatively scarce in the field. Our paper addresses this knowledge gap in two ways. First, we...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Literacy, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods,...
By analyzing the audio recording and transcription of classroom discourse, this case study focused on the ways in which the instructor used follow-up statements to socialize students into intellectual talk. Four relevant categories of follow-up statements emerged: (a) revoicing, (b) contextualization, (c) parallel elaboration, and (d) assistive elaboration. These follow-up statements elevated students' ability to articulate their ideas, restated or contextualized their ideas, and guided them to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Classroom Communication, Socialization, Discourse Analysis,...
Science curriculum standards were mapped onto various texts (literacy readers, trade books, online articles). Statistical analyses highlighted the inconsistencies among readability formulae for Grades 2-6 levels of the standards. There was a lack of correlation among the readability measures, and also when comparing different text sources. Online texts were the most disparate with respect to text difficulty. These findings suggest implications for elementary teachers to support students who...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Readability, Textbooks, Science Education, Elementary School...
This study is an attempt to identify the impact of exploration and thinking loudly strategies on analytical reading and linguistic intelligence among second middle grade female students in Najran, Saudi Arabia. Semi-Experimental method was adopted to achieve study objectives. The sample consisted of (60) female students divided into three groups, (20) students per each. The statistical analysis showed a positive impact for both exploration and thinking loudly strategies on analytical reading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Females, Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills,...
The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between middle school students' critical reading skills, science literacy skills and attitudes towards science literacy with research data according to the default model. Through the structural equation modeling, path analysis has been applied in the study which was designed in correlational model. The sample of the study consists of 1170 students enrolled in 18 schools determined based on socio-economic status. However, the results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Middle School Students, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Scientific Literacy,...
An after-school book club, led by the school librarian, was held to test the efficacy of the peritextual literacy framework (PLF) in teaching skills related to critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy, and media literacy. The PLF is an extension of paratext theory developed by Gérard Genette, which provides a typology of the functions of peritext; this extension results in a framework that can be used for research or as a scaffold for teaching. Twelve middle school students met...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Middle School Students, After School Programs, Youth Clubs, Clubs, Books, Reading...
This study gathered quantitative and qualitative evidence concerning gender differences in performance by using critical reading material on the "SAT"® test with sports and science content. The fundamental research questions guiding the study were: If sports and science are to be included in a skills test, what kinds of material are appropriate for fair and valid assessments? Does item type matter with regard to differential item functioning (DIF)? What factors can provide...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Entrance Examinations, Gender Differences, Critical Reading, Reading Tests,...
Problem Statement: Critical reading refers to individuals' thinking about what they read, assessing what they have read, and using their own judgment about what they have read. In order to teach critical reading skills to students, a teacher is expected to have knowledge about text selection, use of appropriate methods, preparation of functional learning and teaching processes, among other qualities; teachers must display critical reading skills as well. Purpose of Study: The aim of the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Turkish, Skill Development,...
The purpose of this paper is to explore methods to approximate population invariance without conducting multiple linkings for subpopulations. Under the single group or equivalent groups design, no linking needs to be performed for the parallel-linear system linking functions. The unequated raw score information can be used as an approximation. For other linking functions that are nonparallel-linear, linking only needs to be conducted for the total population. The difference of the standardized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Raw Scores, Test Format, Comparative Analysis, Test Construction, Critical Reading,...
Close Reading is a strategy that can be used when reading challenging text. This strategy requires teachers to provide scaffolding, and create opportunities for think-alouds and rereading of text in order to help students become active readers who focus on finding text-based support for their answers. In addition, teachers must also be aware of the risks as well as the benefits of using Close Reading to make wise instructional decisions.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Reading Strategies, Scaffolding...
This study examines the stability of the "SAT Reasoning Test"™ score scales from 2005 to 2010. A 2005 old form (OF) was administered along with a 2010 new form (NF). A new conversion for OF was derived through direct equipercentile equating. A comparison of the newly derived and the original OF conversions showed that Critical Reading and Mathematics score scales have experienced, at most, a moderate upward scale drift (no greater than 5 points on average), and the drift may be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Tests, Thinking Skills, Equated Scores, Comparative...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of discrete anchor items versus passage-based anchor items on observed score equating using empirical data.This study compares an "SAT"® critical reading anchor that contains more discrete items proportionally, compared to the total tests to be equated, to another anchor that contains fewer discrete items and more passage-based items proportionally. Both of these anchors were administered in an SAT administration. The impact of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Equated Scores, Test Items, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis,...
Using a reading lesson designed for advanced university students in Brazil, the author discusses different types of exercises that can help students become more active readers and be more critical about the reading materials. The author distinguishes between passive and active reading tasks and argues that active tasks are more beneficial because they encourage readers to read between the lines. The author describes some pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, College Students, Critical Reading, Reading Instruction, English...
This article examines the usefulness of engaging culturally relevant texts with five levels of analysis to foster critical thinking and academic writing. Teachers who are not critical of seemingly a theoretical, ahistorical reading methods often overlook the ways that cultural biases in instructional methods ignore the cultural and critical needs of urban students of color (Bartolome, 1994; Morrell, 2008). Using five levels of analysis (explicit, implicit, theoretical, interpretive, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Instruction, Minority Group Students, Urban Schools, Culturally Relevant...
The aim of this research is to study humorous tales in "Masnavi" according to Lipman's views on "Philosophical thinking components". To achieve this goal, first, Lipman's components of philosophical thinking were identified and divided into three dimensions of critical, creative and caring thinking components. In the second part, using deductive analysis method and based on the theoretical framework provided in the first part, the triple components were identified and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Children, Humor, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking,...
This case study was conducted in order to observe and investigate the critical reading discourse (CRD) of 27 freshman pre-service teachers of English at the department of foreign language teaching at a state university in Turkey. In addition, the study attempts to answer the question of how the critical reading discourse of the students is shaped through feedback, instruction, and time. The written and audio-visual data were collected in the Advanced Reading and Writing I and II courses, which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction,...
This qualitative research aims at linking recent findings related to cognition and self-regulated learning with complexity-driven educational framework that promotes Teacher-Learner communities of practice, in which knowledge is generated and constructed through a complex process of reflection and negotiation. Building on the data that was obtained through a textual academic literary self-report, we explore students' engagement and agency in the activities that are inherent to higher levels of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communities of Practice, Academic Discourse, Metacognition, Learning Strategies,...
Middle school is a crucial transition period for adolescents; in addition to beginning to grapple with the academic literacy demands of college and career readiness, they are working to find their place in public life and developing opinions about civic issues. This article presents debate as a literacy practice that is uniquely suited to helping middle school students increase their academic reading comprehension skills while also honing their critical literacy skills and capitalizing on their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Middle School Students, Adolescent Development, Debate, Reading Comprehension,...
The nature and role of developmental education classes are under tremendous scrutiny across the nation today. Specifically, students are entering community college and four-year institutions of higher education unprepared to understand and apply much of the reading material presented to them in college-level classes. This article describes the effectiveness of using OUR READING TOOLBOX: The Reading-Thinking Connection as a thinking-centered approach in community college developmental reading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, College Students, Developmental Programs, Reading Instruction,...
When evaluating the effectiveness of their program, members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department, a higher education opportunity program, decided to make their pedagogy more student-centered. They created a method of reading instruction, which they named critical inquiry. Its goals are to build community through teaching students to annotate, question, and reflect on text. The use of student-generated questions as the basis for classroom activity not only makes for livelier classroom...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness, Reading...
The objective of this study is to evaluate the primary school second stage Turkish Education Curriculum effectuated in 2006 and the secondary school Turkish Education Curriculum effectuated in 2015 comparatively in terms of critical thinking. Of qualitative research designs, document analysis approach and content analysis were adopted for the study. The elements of aforementioned curriculums such as teaching approach, overall objectives, basic approach, basic skills, basic language skills,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Secondary School Curriculum, Critical...
This article reports on a challenging and effective assignment on thinking in a discipline that the author gave during fall 2006 in his sophomore-level "Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing" (CRTW) course at Winthrop University. Required of all students, the course follows Writing 101: Composition; and a multi-disciplinary course about the self entitled "The Human Experience: Who Am I?," which is taught by faculty from a variety of departments and billed as "a course...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Assignments, Critical Reading, Writing...
This paper adds to the nascent literature on teaching research methods and what students learn from courses and assessment. Postgraduate students are often confronted with large amounts of reading, and the content of material can be intimidating. Convincing them also to engage critically with readings is even more difficult. We report on a successful strategy used to help postgraduate students in a qualitative research methods course develop the skills to read efficiently and critically. We...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Writing Skills, Qualitative...
The legacy of the New Critics, including its historically male-dominated canon of poets, continues to hold influence, in part because its methods of reading preside over many college classrooms. New Critical readings stress careful explications, based solely on the evidence offered in the lines of the poem. This way of reading encourages careful interpretations, and requires students to pay attention to details of syntax, diction, symbol, metaphor, and imagery. Because the method sets the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Autobiographies, Poetry, Reading Strategies, Literature Appreciation, Literary...
This article describes a simple in-class exercise in reading and writing that, by asking participants to write their own endings for a short narrative taken from the "Journal of the American Medical Association," prompts them to reflect on the problem of uncertainty in medicine and to apply the literary-critical techniques of close reading both to the content and the form of a story that describes and enacts the challenges of making decisions in the face of uncertain knowledge.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Students, Perspective Taking, Writing Exercises,...
Information literacy instruction traditionally focuses on evaluating a source for bias, relevance, and timeliness, and rightfully so; this critical perspective is vital to a well-formed research process. However, this process is incomplete without a similar focus on the potential biases that the student brings to his or her interactions with information. This paper describes a case study of a semester-long information literacy course that utilized neo-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ideology, Critical Thinking, Reflection, Information Literacy, Bias, Evaluation...
One of the greatest challenges of an elementary school teacher is equipping students with comprehension strategies that transfer to all content areas. With stable levels of reading achievement over the last two decades in the United States, it is necessary that further research be conducted on methods of increasing students' comprehension proficiencies. This experimental research study explores the use of an anticipatory reading guide with third grade struggling readers across multiple subject...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Content Area...
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) thought that the discourse was concrete social practice, and the language served for the potency, and the discourse embodied the ideology. Two presses about the case that the US Mattel Toy Company recalled toys "Made in China" in Washington Post (newspaper) and New York Times (newspaper) were taken as the language materials and critically analyzed from language environment and discourse structure, and a new view and argumentation were attempted to dig...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices, Critical Reading, Reading Materials,...
Years after the publication of its seventh and final volume in 2007 and the completion of the film series in 2011, the "Harry Potter" series is still studied and cited by professionals in fields ranging from science and economics to law and theology (for recent examples see Gierzynski and Eddy; Reagin; Bassham). Its continuing popularity in the United States is evident in the multitude of courses, seminars, and extracurricular events offered in colleges and universities nationwide....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Honors Curriculum, Play, Novels, Fiction, Popular Culture, Higher Education, Trend...
This study was designed to investigate the significance of developing students' critical language awareness through explicit teaching methodology of some procedures of critical discourse analysis. The researcher integrated critical activities into her teaching and students' learning process. The study was planned prudently to discover the procedure of encoding and decoding of the writer's message and to teach students the skill of inferencing evaluating and explaining through higher-order...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language...
