Adult EFL Reading Selection: Influence on Literacy
This paper is about the impact of systematic reading selection used to promote English as foreign language learning in adult students. A qualitative action research methodology was used to carry out this project. Ten class sessions were designed to provide students an opportunity to select texts acc...
- Autores:
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Basallo Gómez, Juan Sebastián
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66932
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66932
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67960/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Behavioral patterns
engagement
motivation
perceptions
reading habits
self-selection
autoselección
compromiso
hábitos de lectura
motivación
patrones de comportamiento
percepciones
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | This paper is about the impact of systematic reading selection used to promote English as foreign language learning in adult students. A qualitative action research methodology was used to carry out this project. Ten class sessions were designed to provide students an opportunity to select texts according to criteria based upon their language levels and personal/professional interests. The findings align with three categories of influence: motivation, engagement, and contextualization/interpretation of readings. The main objective of this project was to see how the students’ text selection processes, guided by systematically designed criteria and elaborated strategies, influenced learning and acquisition in terms of motivation, perceptions, and opinions towards reading in English. |
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