Background: The reading of fiction texts requires intense effort to integrate mind, emotion, and intrinsic reading motivation, in order to discover real-life representations. There is limited ...research in this area.
Purpose: This study employs the engaged reading strategy combined with discovery learning, in order to investigate improvements in students’ competence in prose appreciation.
Method: This study used a mixed-method design. Thirty-two Indonesian Language Education students participated in the study. Data was collected using student worksheets, observation, and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was conducted by identifying and interpreting the results of prose appreciation for each reading activity.
Results: This study found that while explaining the theme and through description students were able to activate prior knowledge. The students' reading motivation mainly focused on the intrinsic element of stories. They clearly understood the plot, characterizations, and messages, but supporting details varied because of the differences in students’ knowledge, experience, and social background related to short stories. In the post-reading stage, students revealed new knowledge and mental imagery. Based on our findings, engaged reading combined with discovery learning can enrich students' experience and ability to elaborate information, as well as to discover new knowledge about real-life representation in prose.
Conclusion: Based on the research findings, teachers and lecturers are able to utilize the engaged reading strategy combined with discovery learning to promote students’ ability to read literature. Further research should involve more diverse participants. Experimental research could also examine the advantages and disadvantages of engaged reading and discovery learning.
There is a dearth of published literature that demonstrates the impact of a Guide to Reading Biomedical English Literature course on new Chinese medical postgraduates. Keeping this gap in mind, the ...objectives of this study were to assess the factors associated with course effectiveness using the teacher, postgraduate and organizational factors.
This study was conducted at Nanjing Medical University from December 2014 to December 2015. The participants were 440 new graduate students from different medical specialties. At baseline, each student was assessed for teacher factors, individual factors and organizational factors using a self-administered structured scored anonymous questionnaire. After that, Pearson chi-square analysis was conducted to evaluate the factors that impact teacher factors (knowledge level, teaching style, individualized teaching, logical teaching, heuristic teaching, literature difficulty, bilingual teaching), individual factors (gender, attitude toward studying, previewing literature, English literacy level) and course management (such as teaching objectives and assessment system) on this course. Furthermore, multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the impact of the above factors on our outcome variables (knowledge level, teaching style, individualized teaching, heuristic teaching, study attitude, previewing literature, management).
Nearly all of the participants (420 of 440, 95.5%) thought this course was helpful for learning to read scientific literature and understanding scientific research design. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that the participants perception of the course as effective was associated with teachers' high knowledge level (Adjusted Odds Ratio, AOR = 49.673; 95% confidence interval, 95% CI = 4.28, 575.90). In addition, heuristic teaching was found to be significantly associated with a positive teaching effect of teaching (AOR = 12.76; 95% CI = 1.78, 91.64). Furthermore, the participants perception of the course as effective was associated with positive attitude toward studying (AOR = 25.004; 95% CI = 2.51, 249.09). Previewing literature was also associated with course effectiveness (AOR = 0.02; 95% CI = 0.04, 0.11).
This study indicated that the course effectiveness of the Guide for Reading Biomedical English Literature was associated with i) teachers' knowledge, ii) heuristic teaching, iii) students' positive attitude, and iv) students' previewing literature.
Literature plays a core role in the class of Portuguese Language, a specialised context for teaching literacy competencies. This text reports a study about knowledge and skills privileged in literary ...texts’ reading in national exams. A document analysis of seventeen exams of Portuguese, used by the Ministry of Education between 1996 and 2012, was conducted to identify the “reading objects” chosen for the exams, the text structures that were the focus of the questions and the reading operations requested. The results show that besides the central role of the national literary canon in the assessment, contemporary poetry texts are the preferred “reading objects”. This allows the conclusion that questions about literary contents aim to evaluate student’s critical thinking regarding works by canonical authors. The study also showed that reading literature is perceived as the act of understanding and (re)constructing the meanings of a text by an active and competent reader.
A World Without Contours Hammerschlag, Sarah
Levinas studies,
01/2019, Volume:
13
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article argues that literature is the necessary foil to Emmanuel Levinas’s development of the category of religion, as the site of relation between the same and the other. The essay tracks ...Levinas’s dependence on literature to illustrate alterity, but also shows that literature functions as religion’s rival in Levinas’s thought. Playing the terms of religion, literature, and philosophy off one another, the article argues, Levinas was also making an interception into a larger post-World War II debate over which of philosophy’s competing discourses, literature or religion, would win the ascendant seat in the post-war context.
U radu se definiraju čitalačka sposobnost i književna kompetencija te se svrstavaju među raznovrsne kategorije komunikacijskih vještina i pismenosti koje se sustavno i proceduralno razvijaju u ...nastavi književnosti i jezika (posebno u nastavi književnosti). Čitalačka pismenost je sposobnost učenika da primijene ono što su naučili u školi ili drugdje u svakodnevnom životu; to je sposobnost analiziranja, kritičkog prosuđivanja i prenošenja informacija. Navodimo smjernice za nastavu književnosti da bismo potaknuli razvoj čitalačke pismenosti, kritičkog mišljenja, evaluacije i sintetiziranja na višem stupnju nego što je to slučaj u današnjoj nastavi, poticanjem razvoja čitalačke pismenosti, književne i digitalne kompetencije, kulturalnih i međukulturalnih sposobnosti, sposobnosti stvaranja interdisciplinarnih veza. Istraživanje književnosti i književna kreativnost trebali bi se češće uključivati u nastavu književnosti provedbom problemske nastave. Književnost i jezik će tako olakšati razvoj ključnih vještina (npr. čitalačkih, književnih i digitalnih vještina) uz kulturalne i međukulturalne vještine, omogućiti sposobnost stvaranja međudisciplinarnih veza te poučiti učenike kako kritički razmišljati, evaluirati i sintetizirati (što su sastavnice konvergentnog i divergentnog mišljenja).
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