5. Reading – Understanding Written Texts
WhatisReadingComprehension?
Comprehension – The process of making sense of words, sentences and connected text.
Readers typically make use of background knowledge.
Reading comprehension is the process of simultaneously
extracting and constructing meaning through interaction
and involvement with written language (Snow, 2002).
8. ReadingComprehensionSkills
Mikulecky and Jeffries (2007)
A. Previewing
Here are the guidelines for previewing as follows:
a. Read the main heading
b. Check to see if the passage is divided into parts.
c. Read the first few sentences.
d. Read the first sentences of each paragraph after that.
e. read the final sentences of the passage.
B. Making Inferences
C. Understanding Paragraph
Some activities to understand the paragraphs are (1) identifying the topic, (2) topic
sentences, (3) topic sentences and ideas, (4) Connecting ideas in paragraphs.
9. ReadingComprehensionSkills
D. Patterns of Organization
Recognizing the pattern of organization is an important part of reading comprehension
and it helps to understand and follow ideas more efficiently.
D. Skimming
Skimming is a form of rapid reading for finding the general idea or gist of a passage or
a book.
D. Summarizing
This means rewriting the important parts in a much shorter form, using some words
from the text and some of your own words.
10. ReadingStrategies
Mokhtari & Sheorey (2002)
A. Global Reading Strategies
The first is Global reading strategy (GLOB), a planned technique used by the learners to
monitor or to manage their reading strategies carefully.
B. Problem Solving Strategies
Problem solving strategies is the actions and procedures that readers use while working
directly in understanding textual information.
C. Support Strategies
Support strategies are the tools that are used by student when comprehending the text.
11. ICTinEducation
Kent (2004)
ICT in education point of view refers to Information and
Communication Technology such as computers, communications
facilities and features that various support teaching learning and a
range of activities in education.
12. The use of ICT has positive effects on foreign language teaching and learning.
1. We can get the require information within a fraction of second.
2. Learners become more innovative with the help of e-learning.
3. ICT provides the information to the students which will be used for them to compete with this
competitive world.
4. English lesson that incorporate multimedia application can exert powerful motivation and
provide bored students with exciting new ways to learn.
5. ICT can make students and teachers to work with current and authentic sources.
6. ICT ameliorates the learner’s interaction, verbalization involvement in group collaborative
learning
7. Students can learn independently.
8. With ICT pictorial description is available.
BenefitsofICTinEnglishLanguageTeaching
14. Critical Evaluation 1
01 Purpose of the
Article
To make a proposal that adapts to the new context of the knowledge era and
the use of digital texts, offering a well-founded response that manages to
combine all the aforementioned factors
02 Type of Journal Academic/scholarly journals
03 Organization and
Content
The journal is well organized. There are introduction, theoretical framework,
methodology, and discussion and conclusion.
04 Date of Article
This article is up to date, released in 2022. The topic being discussed in the
article is a topic that is currently being developed, because the use of ICT in
education is growing to improve student performance and motivation.
05 Bibliography
• The authors provided the bibliographic information as the references
• The references are mostly recent and completely written
• The references are consistent with APA style
15. Critical Evaluation 1
06 Authority
The authors are qualified to write this journal because they’re scholars,
especially in the field of Education, not only English.
07 Coverage The article covers the topic comprehensively.
08 Audience
The target readers of this journals is scholars, English teachers, and
teachers who wants to teach reading comprehension using ICTs.
09 Illustrations The author provided the graph and table clearly.
10 Bibliography
• The authors provided the bibliographic information as the references
• The references are mostly recent and completely written
• The references are consistent with APA style
16. Critical Evaluation 1
11 Context
What
What is the journal about? the ICT use in teaching reading
Where
Where is the journal published? The journal is published in Asociación
Española de Comprensión Lectora
When
When did the journal publish? 2022
Why
Why did the authors write the journal? to investigate the use of ICT (game
Leobien) to teach/improve reading comprehension
Who
Who were the authors? they are scholars, the readers? scholars, English
teachers, teachers who want to teach reading comprehension
How
How do the authors conduct the journal? They investigate the use of ICT
and conduct how to improve reading comprehension.
18. Critical Evaluation 2
01 Purpose of the
Article
This study examined five English teachers and their students who were
instructing and learning reading comprehension at Hau Giang Community
College to investigate how teachers may better enhance reading comprehension
for students in college.
02 Type of Journal Academic/scholarly journals
03 Organization and
Content
The techniques worked well for teaching reading comprehension because they
helped students deepen their understanding of the meaning of the material they
were reading.
04 Date of Article
This article is released in 2022. The topics discussed in the article are important
for teachers, because they teach students to open their minds more broadly in
reading comprehension and to encourage students to be more active in the
learning process and help students understand using strategies from the teacher
05 Bibliography
-The author provided the bibliographic information as the references
-The references used are very long and accurate with the topic of the research
-Most of the contemporary references used are old articles
19. Critical Evaluation 2
06 Authority
The author is qualified to write in this journal because she is an undergraduate, she has
been teaching English at a Community College in Hau Giang province for more than 10
years.
07 Coverage
The article topic is comprehensively, because it concludes several points that discuss
reading comprehension in detail.
08 Audience
The target readers of this journal are undergraduates, English teachers, and teachers
willing to teach reading comprehension.
09 Illustratio
ns
The author provides a clear table.
10 Bibliograph
y
• The author provided the bibliographic information as the references.
• The references used are very long and accurate with the topic of the research.
• Most of the contemporary references used are old articles.
20. Critical Evaluation 2
11 Context
What
What is the journal about? It’s about strategies in teaching reading comprehension.
Where
Where is the journal published? the journal published in International Journal of Language Instruction.
When
When did the journal publish? published in 2022
Why
Why did the authors write the journal? to investigate teachers' strategies in teaching reading
comprehension and how their students reacted to
such strategies at Hau Giang Community College.
Who
Who were the authors? they are scholars, the readers? Graduate student, English teachers for 10
years.
How
How was the implementation of strategies in teaching reading comprehension? The implementation
worked well for teaching reading comprehension because they helped students deepen their
understanding of the meaning of the material they were reading.
22. QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS (15 Minutes)
1. Do you think the use of ICT can influence the process of learning
and learning outcomes, especially in reading comprehension. What
are your arguments? Give example(s)
2. To what extent do ICT-based reading activities in ELT promote
deeper understanding and analysis of text compared to traditional
methods?
3. How can the use of ICT in reading comprehension instruction align
with broader educational goals and objectives, such as fostering
21st-century skills or promoting global citizenship?