Reading strategies and critical thinking skills : Strategies and critical thinking abilities of three efl pre-service teachers

ISBN-13: 9783659250088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str.

Julián Bedoya Giraldo; Angela Lopez

Opis

This research took as hypothesis that participants reading of authentic materials (e.g., newspaper articles) can provide the literacy researcher with important information about participants employment of reading comprehension strategies and critical thinking skills. Kelly, Offner & Vorland (2002) consider that authentic materials (e.g. newspaper articles) offers topics from which usually readers already have some prior knowledge, thus, this prior knowledge facilitates to the reader, her/his simultaneous application of reading comprehension strategies an critical thinking skills while reasoning about the content of the text.

O autorze

The author is an educator and researcher in the field of critical thinking and reading analysis with a majoring in TESOL. His research interests are: the empowerment of mental abilities through reading and discourse analysis.Currently, he is working as an associated teacher at the system of public education.