In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehensio...In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehension becomes an important issue to study （Cairo, 2003）. The present study investigates metacognitive reading strategies used by low-proficient EFL （English as a Foreign Language） learners while reading paper-based documents and hypertext documents for general comprehension. The author of the paper tries to find whether these strategies are essentially different from each other. Data were collected from 32 students through SORS （Survey of Reading Strategies） and OSORS （Online Survey of Reading Strategies） questionnaires and from five students through think-aloud protocol The result indicates that some of the metacognitive reading strategies observed in hypertext reading are similar to those used in paper-based reading such as ＂using reference materials＂ and ＂translating from English to Turkish＂ However, there are few new emerging strategies while some of them are not observed in paper-based reading展开更多
English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and serves as a language of wider communication but also achieved a genuinely global stat...English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and serves as a language of wider communication but also achieved a genuinely global status owing to its special role recognized in every country. Under such circumstances, greater importance has been attached to English teaching of which reading has been given some privileges at the tertiary level in China. Hence, it is very essential for language teachers to have a good understanding about how to teach reading in a college English classroom. This article discusses what reading is, the important issues in teaching reading, and gives some proposals for how to teach reading efficiently in a college English classroom, aiming to give an idea that reading can be learnt effectively if students are motivated, exposed to English language and given chances to use English.展开更多
文摘In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehension becomes an important issue to study （Cairo, 2003）. The present study investigates metacognitive reading strategies used by low-proficient EFL （English as a Foreign Language） learners while reading paper-based documents and hypertext documents for general comprehension. The author of the paper tries to find whether these strategies are essentially different from each other. Data were collected from 32 students through SORS （Survey of Reading Strategies） and OSORS （Online Survey of Reading Strategies） questionnaires and from five students through think-aloud protocol The result indicates that some of the metacognitive reading strategies observed in hypertext reading are similar to those used in paper-based reading such as ＂using reference materials＂ and ＂translating from English to Turkish＂ However, there are few new emerging strategies while some of them are not observed in paper-based reading
文摘English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and serves as a language of wider communication but also achieved a genuinely global status owing to its special role recognized in every country. Under such circumstances, greater importance has been attached to English teaching of which reading has been given some privileges at the tertiary level in China. Hence, it is very essential for language teachers to have a good understanding about how to teach reading in a college English classroom. This article discusses what reading is, the important issues in teaching reading, and gives some proposals for how to teach reading efficiently in a college English classroom, aiming to give an idea that reading can be learnt effectively if students are motivated, exposed to English language and given chances to use English.
