Taking a critical step on the way to critical reading : investigation into critical reading discourse of freshman FLE students in an advanced reading and writing course

Date

2012

Author

Balıkçı, Gözde

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This case study is conducted in order to observe and investigate the critical reading discourse of twenty seven freshman pre service teachers of English at the department of foreign language teaching at METU. In addition, it attempts to answer the question how the critical reading discourse of the students’ are shaped through feedback, instruction and time. The extensive data (both written and audio-visual data) is collected in the Advanced Reading and Writing I and II courses which are offered to the first year students at the FLE department. The results of the analysis of the data indicate that the critical reading discourse of the freshman pre-service teachers of English at METU involves interpretive, evaluative and responsive discourse. Evaluative discourse is found to be limited in students’ written work and discussions when compared to interpretive and responsive discourse. The students also usually tend to evaluate the content of the texts rather than form of them. It is also found that instruction on academic writing foster critical thinking but it is not sufficient to encourage critical reading.

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English language, English language, College readers.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614457/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21630

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis