Describes the training provided to tutors and trainers of adult learning centers in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Results show that trainees, prior to training, had limited access to computer technology and needed training in incorporating computer technology in the curriculum. After training, trainees have shown increased levels of comfort with…

Describes web literacy instruction developed and implemented in response to students' needs as part of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language academic skills preparation curriculum. The goals of the instruction are to introduce critical reading strategies and develop computer literacy skills. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the impact of the World Wide Web instructional medium on second language comprehension during independent reading. Results of the study suggest that when teaching content through self-directed reading, the web medium can evoke better reading comprehension than the traditional print medium. (Author/VWL)

Examines linguistic features of text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Hong Kong. The study is based on a 70,000-word corpus of electronic mail and ICQ instant messaging texts, which were collected from students in Hong Kong. Identified language-specific features that may be seen as new literacy practices within the theoretical…

Critical literacy in the new century will draw on critical literacy as it has been known in centuries past and will continue to draw on basic cognitive mechanisms that make the feat of literacy possible at all. These mechanisms include both essential mental abilities like identification and categorization. The ability o analyze, synthesize, and…

Describes how to use the Internet as part of a high intermediate sustained content curriculum to develop English-as-a-Second-Language students' literacy skills through an activity called focus discipline research. Details the curriculum and activities, providing examples from the study of environmental science, presents results of student feedback…

Proposes the use of web pages as an interdisciplinary tool in classes of English for professional and academic purposes. Languages and computing are two areas of knowledge that the graduate of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and its School of architecture need to study in order to supplement the education received during their degree with the…

Discusses the question of whether there is such a thing as web literacy. Perspectives from media studies, literacy studies, and the study of multimodal texts are used to find the main contextual parameters involved in what might be classed as web literacy. The parameters suggested are material conditions, domain, power or ideology, and semiotic…

Highlights second language (L2) reading strategy research to illuminate the disparities in research methods utilized across studies that are conducted with participants beyond the elementary school grade levels. Includes an extended discussion of relevant research and provides tables to visually display the variations. (Author/VWL)

Points out reading/comprehension strategies applied by higher education first-year students during their daily learning academic tasks and their major difficulties in the field. Research consists of a measuring frequency Likert scale questionnaire completed by 1,000 students from four of the main Portuguese state universities from science and…

Examines theoretical contexts for reading online and suggests links between theory, pedagogy, and student perspectives. (Author/VWL)

Students learning to read in a second language have access to the patterns and information gathered by experience in first language use. Language teachers should consider the different dimension added to the task of reading by students who have already developed a schema related to the topic in another language. Suggests that earlier ways of…

Examines strategies effective readers employ in pre-reading, reading, and post-reading stages of instruction in classroom language learning. Aims at determining the difference in the strategy use by both successful and less successful readers at an upper-intermediate level. Subjects were preparatory English language teachers. (Author/VWL)

Describes the results of a questionnaire that reveals Japanese students' attitudes towards reading in English versus reading in Japanese. Points out how students may have distorted views about English and English texts, because of their limited exposure to literary texts. (Author/VWL)

Examined the nature of Turkish students' motivation to read. Objectives were to explore the mean level of Turkish students' reading motivation; to identify students' reading frequencies; and to understand the relation between their reading motivations and their reading frequencies. Students completed the Motivations for Reading Questionnaire and…