Journal of College Reading and Learning articles

Recent articles from Journal of College Reading and Learning

Editorial comments.(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... As this spring 2009 issue of JCRL goes to press, my term as editor ends. I want to recognize and thank the stellar team that has published the journal for the past three years. Dr. Beth Moreno and Mr. Ed Fernandez, staff members at the University of Texas-Austin Learning Center, have served...

Using WebCT as a supplemental tool to enhance critical thinking and engagement among developmental reading students.(Report)
March 22, 2009... The purpose of this research was to examine possible outcomes of developmental students' critical thinking and motivation to read when the online learning community, WebCT, was implemented. My role, in addition to instructor, was that of participant-observer. I implemented WebCT tools, such...

Factors affecting the comprehension of global and local main idea.(Report)
March 22, 2009... This study investigated factors that would affect a reader's understanding of the main idea at the global level and explicit and implicit main ideas at the local level. Fifty-seven first-year university students taking a college reading course took a comprehension test on an expository text....

Mapping strategies.(Report)
March 22, 2009... The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of using two visual-while-reading strategies, knowledge-mapping (KM) and underlining, on the performance of intermediate students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in multiple-choice reading comprehension tests. In doing so,...

The effect of audio and written teacher responses on EFL student revision.(English as a foreign language )(Report)
March 22, 2009... Providing feedback is one of the foreign language writing teacher's most important tasks (Ferris, 2007). However, there is less certainty about the techniques that should be used (K. Hyland & F. Hyland, 2006). This article reports on research that investigated the effects of two types of...