Designing a multi-slate reading environment to support active reading activities

Designing reading tasks to maximise vocabulary learning

Most vocabulary learning should occur incidentally through listening and reading. This is one of the  reasons  why  a  substantial  extensive  reading  program  is  an  important  part  of  an  English course.  Extensive  reading  requires  the  learners  to  do  large quantities  of  reading  using  material that  is  at  the  right  level  for  them.  Vocabulary  learning  occurs  through  th...

Reading for Understanding: A Framework for Advanced Reading Support

Reading is still the main tool for knowledge communication, especially in higher education. Lack of an effective support during this activity, induces many problems of comprehension and understanding. In this paper, we present the LEKC framework (Learning by Explicit Knowledge Construction), which aims to assist readers by an explicit construction of key understanding elements. It introduces kn...

Voluntary Reading 1 The Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Activities and Reading Achievement

Active Reading of Visualizations

A: SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL FOR S1 For additional details about the procedure used in study S1, we include the full text of the questions of Phase 1 (Figure 2), the problem statement given to participants in Phase 2 (Figure 3), and the semi-structured interview questions used at the end of the study. For a fuller depiction of the results of S1, we provide additional details about participant demog...

Traces – ‘ Reading ’ the Environment

This paper looks particularly at informal and implicit sources of information in our environment, how we can read this kind of information, and how the information has come about. The paper focuses on implicit information and ‘reading the environment’, with examples from practice, and presenting an art project that investigates this notion through an interactive video installation. This install...