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Maria Johana Ari Widayanti; Januarius Mujiyanto; Dwi Rukmini; Hendi Pratama – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study aims to examine the implementation of structured reading strategies through the Reader Response Approach (RRA) in an online EFL reading class to enhance students' reading comprehension and critical engagement with literary texts. Responding to a text allows readers to deepen their understanding, articulate personal…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Herrera Gutierrez, Yerni – Online Submission, 2020
Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA) is a university considered as one of the highest ranking universities in the Dominican Republic, it is one of the few to be recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology as an autonomous university for its constant research and updating. This university offers to college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This article describes a model used to explore cultural understanding in English as a foreign language reading in a developing country, namely Argentina. The model is designed to investigate, analyse and describe EFL readers' processes of cultural understanding in a specific context. Cultural understanding in reading is typically investigated…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Models
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Fagan, Barbara – Voices from the Middle, 2003
Contends that second language learners need to have a strong grasp of the reading process for school success. Explains how three intervention strategies (t-charts, sticky notes, and key words) were employed to give students an understanding of the reading process. Concludes that using t-charts helped students organize their thoughts, and using…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reader Response, Reading Instruction
Kang, Hee-Won – School of Education Review, 1992
Study examined how second-language readers filter information from second-language texts through culture-specific background knowledge. Korean graduate students with advanced English read stories and answered questions. A think-aloud protocol assessing their understanding and inferences indicated an effect of culture-specific schemata and…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
Connor, Ulla – NABE: The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1990
An interview method for assessing reading processes was pilot tested to examine reader-text interaction among native-Spanish-speaking fifth graders. Subjects were active participants in the reading situation but were lacking in aspects related to the text's cultural content. The reading interview method is highly recommended for use in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)