Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction write by Lorna Idol. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruction for at-risk students is discussed in great detail along with a thorough examination of the teaching of thinking skills from the viewpoint of educational values and school culture. The issues of thinking, learning, and cognitive instruction are linked to the educational reform movement from numerous perspectives. Specifically, the reader can better anticipate which aspects of research on thinking will conflict with existing paradigms and which aspects of schooling will be most resistant to change.
Critical Thinking Ability and Efl Learners' Reading Comprehension
Critical Thinking Ability and Efl Learners' Reading Comprehension - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Thinking Ability and Efl Learners' Reading Comprehension write by Reza Vaseghi. This book was released on 2012-08. Critical Thinking Ability and Efl Learners' Reading Comprehension available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In EFL contexts, the reading instruction practices do not do much to enhance students' reading comprehension especially at higher levels. The instructional practices prevailing therein emphasize surface-level information processing techniques such as memorization and rehearsal at the expense of deeper processing such as elaboration and critical thinking. Given the importance of reading comprehension abilities and critical thinking skills, it seems to be imperative to raise EFL instructors' awareness concerning the possible relationship between critical thinking and EFL reading comprehension performance. This book provides an investigation of students' critical thinking ability and how they are related to the students' gender and reading scores. From the perspective of professional practice, this study has the potential to make a significant contribution to the field in that it has provided further insights into the relationship between EFL reading comprehension performance and critical thinking. Moreover, EFL instructors can be made conscious of the importance of critical thinking and they could therefore apply its strategies at the EFL reading courses.
The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking
The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking write by Sara Mashayekh. This book was released on 2013. The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teaching methodology plays a very important role in language learning, and critical teaching, as a method which promotes learners' cognitive ability, has been receiving an increasing attention from researchers in the last two decades. The focus of the present study is to investigate the effect of critical teaching on learners' reading comprehension improvement in an EFL context. This study is adapting the infusion approach to the critical thinking theory. This approach is based on the integration of teaching critical thinking skills into the subject-specific classes (in this case English classes). The findings of the study suggest that critical teaching has a positive effect on both learners' reading comprehension ability and their motivation. The findings are useful to both teachers and learners and could be implemented in teacher training courses, self-learning software, or in computer assisted language learning (CALL).
Focusing on EFL Reading
Focusing on EFL Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focusing on EFL Reading write by Rahma Al-Mahrooqi. This book was released on 2014-06-02. Focusing on EFL Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading, a complex and multi-faceted skill, is essential for life and academic success. While its mysteries still baffle first-language research, the nature of reading in a foreign language presents an even greater puzzle. However, given reading’s importance for EFL students who study their specializations in English, and whose future employment may depend on their competence in it, researchers must continue to investigate foreign language reading and devise ways of improving students’ capacity for it. Hence, this book, with its thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice and research, will be of great value in today’s educational context. As they strive to understand reading and help EFL students to acquire it, researchers and language teachers will find much of value here.
Comprehension [Grades K-12]
Comprehension [Grades K-12] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comprehension [Grades K-12] write by Douglas Fisher. This book was released on 2020-08-20. Comprehension [Grades K-12] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Radically change the way students learn from texts, extending beyond comprehension to critical reasoning and problem solving. Is your reading comprehension instruction just a pile of strategies? There is no evidence that teaching one strategy at a time, especially with pieces of text that require that readers use a variety of strategies to successfully negotiate meaning, is effective. And how can we extend comprehension beyond simple meaning? Bestselling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law propose a new, comprehensive model of reading instruction that goes beyond teaching skills to fostering engagement and motivation. Using a structured, three-pronged approach—skill, will, and thrill—students learn to experience reading as a purposeful act and embrace struggle as a natural part of the reading process. Instruction occurs in three phases: Skill. Holistically developing skills and strategies necessary for students to comprehend text, such as monitoring, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and inferring. Will. Creating the mindsets, motivations, and habits, including goal setting and choice, necessary for students to engage fully with texts. Thrill. Fostering the thrill of comprehension, so that students share their thinking with others or use their knowledge for something else. Comprehension is the structured framework you need to empower students to comprehend text and take action in the world.
