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Conflict: The Key to Critical Reading Instruction.
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Frager, Alan M.; Thompson, Loren – 1984
When readers encounter the dissonance of conflicting ideas and are motivated by the psychological discomfort to resolve the dissonance, the effort to alleviate this discomfort may well result in the activation of those cognitive processes termed critical reading and thinking. With this in mind, one approach to teaching critical reading treats…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading