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Enhancing Student Critical Literacy through Social Annotations
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Huang, Yu-Tien; Shih, Shu-Min; Tseng, Sheng Shiang – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2019
The effects of social annotation on critical literacy remain controversial, and little research has explained why some students can benefit from social annotation in critical literacy, and some cannot. This chapter investigates the effects of social annotation on critical literacy and the interactive patterns of social annotations. The…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Documentation, Cooperative Learning, College Students
Achievement Differences and Gender Gaps in Reading Motivation: An Examination of Taiwanese Adolescent Readers of English as a Foreign Language
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Yau, Jia-ling Charlene; Lee, Pi-yu – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2018
This study has two aims: one is to examine whether or not there are individual differences in motivation to read English as a Foreign Language (EFL) among Taiwanese adolescents, and the other is to scrutinize whether or not a gender gap exists among those readers. A total of 252 adolescents, half of them female and the other half male,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Gender Differences
Argumentative Discourse Structure in Chinese and English Writing: A Comparative Analysis.
Chen, Sun-I – 1986
To determine formal principles of discourse processing and production, a study reviewed theories in various disciplines related to language and/or thought and thereby rationalized an approach of quantitative matrix analysis to the problems caused by discrepant discourse structures encountered in second language learning. Statistical analyses of…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Chinese, Communication Research, Communism