Reading in a Digital Age: Issues and Opportunities -- Part One

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

identifying the strategies persian efl learners use in reading an expository text in english and examining its relation to reading-proficiency and motivation: a think-aloud study

هدف اصلی از این مطالعه بررسی نوع و میزان استراتژی هایی بود که دانشجویان فارسی زبان رشته ی زبان انگلیسی در حین خواندن یک متن انگلیسی به کار گرفتند. این مطالعه همچنین به بررسی تفاوت های استراتژی های مورد استفاده بین دارندگان سطح بالا و پایین درک مطلب پرداخت. نوع همبستگی بین استراتژی به کار گرفته و درک مطلب از یک سو و استراتژی به کار گرفته و انگیزه از سوی دیگر نیز در این تحقیق مورد آزمایش قرار گرف...

HACKING LITERATURE : READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron

Title of Document: HACKING LITERATURE: READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron Dinin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Martha Nell Smith, Department of English Evangelists of the digital age, in the immediacy of its adolescence, often describe digital technologies as “revolutionary” (e.g. “the digital revolution”) and as having a world-changing impact on human cultural inte...

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Technology tools to support reading in the digital age.

Advances in digital technologies are dramatically altering the texts and tools available to teachers and students. These technological advances have created excitement among many for their potential to be used as instructional tools for literacy education. Yet with the promise of these advances come issues that can exacerbate the literacy challenges identified in the other articles in this issu...