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Amin Zaini; Hossein Shokouhi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This paper investigates readers' recognition of unsourced evidentials in texts in association with critical reading. To this end, we involved four Iranian postgraduate students at an Australian university in a collective case study where each student read four Persian texts and participated in in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Critical Reading
Lucas Kohnke; Frankie Har – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Perusall, a collaborative reading tool, was introduced in an advanced reading and writing skills course in Hong Kong to increase engagement with texts and encourage critical discussion during the COVID-19 face-to-face class suspension. Students were asked to use the Perusall platform to complete pre-class readings, highlight and annotate text and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Learner Engagement, Reading Skills, Reader Text Relationship
Strømsø, Helge I.; Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We explored potential profiles of interest, attitudes, and source evaluation by performing cluster analysis in a sample of Norwegian upper-secondary students. Differences among the profile groups with regard to multiple-document use were examined. The profile groups were partly consistent with the default stances described by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Information Sources
Saulius, Tomas; Malinauskas, Romualdas K. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The current paper addresses research question of how do students of one university (in our case study -- Lithuanian Sports University, LSU) experience the educational effect of introductory philosophy course. To answer this question, method of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed. In accordance with this qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Philosophy, Student Experience
Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Al-Shbatat, Maysa'a Issa – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study examines the potential effect of questioning strategies on Jordanian English as a foreign language ninth-grade students' critical reading skills. The study uses a quasi-experimental, pre-/post-test design. An experimental group of 85 ninth-grade students from three public schools in Al-Qasr Directorate of Education (Karak, Jordan) was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Questioning Techniques, English Language Learners
Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon E. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This study highlights the need to promote more personal and informal processes in Teacher Autonomy and focuses on university Language Teachers' processes in reading Teacher Research (TR) in order to understand how this impacts their autonomy development processes. In particular, it addresses teachers' interactions with TR articles during the…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Empowerment, Professional Identity
Sohail, Samira – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, College Graduates
Mattos, Monika Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading for pleasure is a topic often overlooked in literacy research. Given reading for pleasure's personal, academic, and social relevance, it should be considered a foreground factor in literacy studies. This case study draws from a sociocultural approach and uses Third Space Theory and Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Recreational Reading
Maier, Johanna; Richter, Tobias – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
When reading multiple texts about controversial scientific issues, learners must construct a coherent mental representation of the issue based on conflicting information that can be more or less belief-consistent. The present experiment investigated the effects of text-belief consistency on the situation model and memory for text. Students read…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Science and Society, Information Sources, Critical Reading
Stromso, Helge I.; Braten, Ivar; Britt, M. Anne; Ferguson, Leila E. – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
This study used think-aloud methodology to explore undergraduates' spontaneous attention to and use of source information while reading six documents that presented conflicting views on a controversial social scientific issue in a Google-like environment. Results showed that students explicitly and implicitly paid attention to sources of documents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Information Sources, Critical Reading
McAlpine, Lynn – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
While writing in doctoral education is increasingly visible as a focus for research and pedagogy, what remains less visible is the role of reading in the doctoral journey. This paper draws on data from two parallel research programmes in which doctoral student day-to-day experience was documented longitudinally, initially in the social sciences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Reading Assignments, Reading
Perales Escudero, Moises Damian – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation project examines the implementation of a critical reading intervention in a Mexican university, and the emergence of target critical reading processes in Mexican college-level EFL readers. It uses a Complexity Theory-inspired, qualitative methodology. Orienting the selection and design of materials is a deep view of culture that…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Critical Reading, Intervention, Ideology
Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
In a sample of 135 Norwegian education undergraduates, we examined the effects of topic-specific epistemic beliefs concerning the simplicity and source of knowledge on deep-level understanding of multiple expository texts about the same topic--climate change. The results showed that students holding sophisticated simplicity beliefs, viewing…
Descriptors: Climate, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Norlund, Anita – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
This study emanates from an assumption that the skill of evaluating sources is placed in a complicated field, where an old academic tradition is paired with a contemporary emphasis on the possibilities and risks with modern sources. The aims of the study is to contribute with a description and analysis of these views as they are expressed in…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation, Critical Reading, Secondary Education
Kobayashi, Keiichi – Educational Psychology, 2007
This study examined the influence of critical reading orientation on use of external strategies such as note-taking and underlining while reading an expository text. In two experiments, undergraduate students were asked either to review an article on a linguistic policy (critical reading) or to summarise it (less-critical reading). Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Critical Reading, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
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