Every time people think about what they said (e.g., Was I tactful?), check something they did (e.g., Did I get the correct change?), or decide whether they have finished a task (e.g., Is this note to my daughter clear enough?), they are engaging in metacognition, or thinking about thinking. Metacognition is very important for reading comprehension. This chapter focuses on understanding the role...

The immersion of the flipped classroom teaching model in blended and online language learning is indispensable. purpose this study was to propose improvement critical thinking reading through EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners higher education. A quasi-experimental design used improve skills based on framework for with paired t-test pre-test post-test. participants were 37 second-seme...

Reading interest and students’ creative thinking skills cannot be optimal in the current learning process. Several things cause this. One of them is low models. It happens because activities applied by teacher are less innovative varied. This study aims to analyze effect using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy-Oriented Learning Activities on reading elementary school students. The used a quasi-experimen...

“Protocol analysis” or “think-alouds” or have been extensively employed in the fields of psychology and cognitive science as a verbal-report method of producing concurrent verbalization. Think-alouds require participants to tell researchers what they are thinking and doing while performing a task. The participants are usually instructed to keep thinking aloud, acting as if they are alone in the...

The study examined how literacy portfolios were used as tools in a college developmental English class in which deaf students assessed their reading comprehension as well as their writing processes and products. The students' reading and writing assignments involved reflective thinking and were grounded in authentic tasks. Immediate feedback was provided. The study was multidimensional, longitu...

OBJECTIVES This study employed the Future Thinking Task (MacLeod et al., 2005, Br. J. Clin. Psychol., 44, 495) to investigate whether future-directed thinking in first-episode psychosis is significantly different from that of matched controls, and to identify its correlates in this patient group. DESIGN Cross-sectional, mixed-model, case-control design. METHOD Participants were 30 patients ...

Reading comprehension is an important skill for college academic success. Much of the research pertaining to reading in general, and reading comprehension specifically, focuses on the success of primary and secondary school-age students. The present study goes beyond previous research by extending such investigation to the reading comprehension of college-age student participants. Using the Cat...

Critical thinking ability is an important element of under the core competence English discipline. Combined with “Reading Circles”, a kind group-based and student-centered reading activity, this paper explores relationship between Circles” four critical abilities: focus definition, analysis evaluation, reasoning demonstration, review correction. Taking task design in The Million Pound Bank Note...