Journal of College Reading and Learning articles from March 22 2009

Journal of College Reading and Learning archives from March 22 2009

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Theory to practice: building the 21st century writing community.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Not too many years ago, right about the start of the new millennium, the TAMU-CC Writing Center began to pull away from the model of a center that focuses mostly on individual consultations and began to build a greater sense of the place of the...