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- Title
Desenredando la web: la lectura crítica de los aprendices de lenguas extranjeras en entornos digitales.
- Authors
Valero, María José; Vázquez, Boris; Cassany, Daniel
- Abstract
This article analyzes how thirteen Spanish students of translation into English critically read an authentic text produced in the British community. Our three objectives are: a) to explore whether the learners identify the worldview contained in the text; b) to document and analyze the critical reading strategies and online resources they use to understand the text; c) to describe their perceptions of and attitudes towards their role as critical readers. We use qualitative methods to analyze various types of data: 1) responses to a task of critical reading comprehension and translation of a news article published in a British online newspaper; 2) five semistructured interviews focused on the reading task, and 3) videos of the on-screen activity of five informants. The findings show that most of students fail to critically understand the text and that this is due mainly to the lack of awareness of the socioculturally situated nature of digital texts and the inefficient use of critical reading strategies and online resources.
- Subjects
SPAIN; READING comprehension; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in universities &; colleges; COLLEGE students; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; FOREIGN language education in universities &; colleges; READING strategies; COMPUTER network resources; HIGHER education
- Publication
OCNOS: Journal of Reading Research / Revista de Estudios sobre Lectura, 2015, Issue 13, p7
- ISSN
1885-446X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18239/ocnos_2015.13.01